I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And V Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin V
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues V Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire V
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone V To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) V
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne V Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright V
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest V If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) V
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician V The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 V
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld V I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through V
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that V I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A V
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous V Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician V
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) V "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) V
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher V A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous V
