I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin E No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata E
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock E Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali E
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne E Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan E
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) E "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) E
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words E You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White E
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw E Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story E
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 E "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land E
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken E Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry E
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde E The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov E
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge E I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling E
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer E Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) E
