If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Occultists They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Occultists
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Occultists Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Occultists
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "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) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Occultists We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Occultists
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Occultists Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Occultists
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Occultists "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Occultists
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Occultists Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Occultists
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Occultists All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Occultists
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Occultists A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Occultists
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Occultists "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Occultists
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Occultists Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Occultists
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Occultists Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg 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 Occultists