"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain O Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "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 O
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "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 "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) O blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier O
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) O Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) O
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson O History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle O
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia O The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers O
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m O When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game O
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) O It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) O
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker O People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling O
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller O In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All O
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken O Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge O
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna O Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland O
