"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher M We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 M
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick 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 Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey M I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn M
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die M The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben M
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin M But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth M
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Anyway, 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,
ign Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado M "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou M
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) M For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead M
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer M Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe M
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) 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 M "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron M
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh M When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title M
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost M Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history M
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt M "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin M
