I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Personages I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Personages
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Personages By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Personages
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Personages "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Personages
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Personages A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Personages
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Personages Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Personages
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Personages Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Personages
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Personages Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Personages
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Personages 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Personages
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Personages Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Personages
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Personages Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Personages
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Personages "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Personages
