"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Pitt, William the Elder A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Pitt, William the Elder
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Pitt, William the Elder May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Pitt, William the Elder
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "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 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Pitt, William the Elder If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Pitt, William the Elder
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Pitt, William the Elder If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Pitt, William the Elder
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Pitt, William the Elder "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Pitt, William the Elder
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Pitt, William the Elder "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Pitt, William the Elder
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Pitt, William the Elder Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Pitt, William the Elder
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pitt, William the Elder The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Pitt, William the Elder
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Pitt, William the Elder "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Pitt, William the Elder
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pitt, William the Elder Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Pitt, William the Elder
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Pitt, William the Elder "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Pitt, William the Elder
