"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Poets The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Poets
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 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 Poets The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Poets
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Poets If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Poets
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Poets "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Poets
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Poets Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Poets
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Poets "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 In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Poets
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Poets The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Poets
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Poets Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 Poets
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Poets Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Poets
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Poets In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Poets
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Poets A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Poets
