I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "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) U "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers U
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle U "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman U
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James My other wife is beautiful. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan U There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards U
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale U A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) U
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain U I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers U
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson U "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. U
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe U "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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 U
"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 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec U "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) U
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner U If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) U
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) U "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. U
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham U "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) U
