Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) R 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 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) R
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) R I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) R
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) R A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues R
"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 "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 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 R Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, R
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) 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 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw R You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 R
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac R "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) R
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw R Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers R
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson R The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) R
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) R "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 R
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth R It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 R
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen R The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur R
