"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Actors It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Actors
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 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Actors "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "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 Actors
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Actors My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "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 Actors
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Actors As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Actors
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Actors All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Actors
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Actors And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Actors
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Actors "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Actors
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer .. 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Actors These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Actors
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Actors How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Actors
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Actors Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Actors
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Actors Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Actors
