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.
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Personages Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Personages
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Personages "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Personages
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Personages No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Personages
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Personages When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Personages
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Personages I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Personages
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) My other wife is beautiful. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Personages 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 "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Personages
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) >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 Personages Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Personages
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Personages "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Personages
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Personages The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Personages
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Personages 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 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Personages
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 "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) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Personages Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates 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 Personages
