Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Danegeld I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Danegeld
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung 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 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Danegeld "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Danegeld
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Danegeld Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Danegeld
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Danegeld It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Danegeld
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Danegeld I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Danegeld
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Danegeld Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "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) Danegeld
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) 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 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Danegeld Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Danegeld
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Man and wife make one fool. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Danegeld The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Danegeld
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Danegeld What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Danegeld
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Danegeld "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Danegeld
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Danegeld I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Danegeld
