First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Fitzroy, Augustus Henry The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Fitzroy, Augustus Henry "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Fitzroy, Augustus Henry Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Fitzroy, Augustus Henry Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Fitzroy, Augustus Henry When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Fitzroy, Augustus Henry "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And 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. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Fitzroy, Augustus Henry In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Fitzroy, Augustus Henry This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Fitzroy, Augustus Henry Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Fitzroy, Augustus Henry Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Fitzroy, Augustus Henry Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Fitzroy, Augustus Henry
