"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Composers "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Composers
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Composers 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 An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Composers
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Composers "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Composers
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Composers Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Composers
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "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) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Composers Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Composers
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Composers Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Composers
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Composers That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Composers
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Composers I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Composers
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Composers Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Composers
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Composers Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Composers
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Composers Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Composers
