blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton X There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung X
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit X We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife X
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) X "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) X
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) X You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler X
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein X I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard X
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence X And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun X
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed X You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea X
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes X "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod X
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) X Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 X
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw X "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. X
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board X The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin X
