"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) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage .. 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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton P Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France P
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch P I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns P
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson P Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 P
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan P All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd P
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) P "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) P
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "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) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth P If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn P
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) P During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) P
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz P The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner P
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student P The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "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 P
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell P The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein P
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) 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 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 P 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 marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. 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 P
