America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry "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) 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 Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "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 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry 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 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Campbell Bannerman, Sir Henry
