blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "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) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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.
-- Crowf P I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin P
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln P If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge P
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin P There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker P
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 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) P I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) P
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) P Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) P
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show P We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx P
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) P The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) P
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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 P A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland P
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire P Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. P
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje P "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert P
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 P I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson P
