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 "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Advocacy There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Advocacy
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Advocacy "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Advocacy
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Advocacy To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Advocacy
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Advocacy He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Advocacy
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Advocacy A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Advocacy
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Advocacy Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Advocacy
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Advocacy Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Advocacy
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Advocacy All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Advocacy
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Advocacy "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) 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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Advocacy
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Advocacy If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Advocacy
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Advocacy Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Advocacy
