Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. 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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 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 L Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney L
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott L >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge L
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho L "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken L
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) 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 I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara L "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas 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 L
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "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) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H L An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous L
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils 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 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) L Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) L
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "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) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) L Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock L
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard L "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken L
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa L Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton L
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller L "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi L
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat L Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer L
