I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik May you never leave your marriage alive. A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Baldwin, Stanley "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Baldwin, Stanley
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Baldwin, Stanley If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Baldwin, Stanley
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Baldwin, Stanley We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Baldwin, Stanley
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Baldwin, Stanley If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Baldwin, Stanley
"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 Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Baldwin, Stanley I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Baldwin, Stanley
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Baldwin, Stanley If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Baldwin, Stanley
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Baldwin, Stanley Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Baldwin, Stanley
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Baldwin, Stanley Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Baldwin, Stanley
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Baldwin, Stanley Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Baldwin, Stanley
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Baldwin, Stanley I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Baldwin, Stanley
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Baldwin, Stanley We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Baldwin, Stanley
