"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead S "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) S
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died S I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and S
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" S If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) S
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long S "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) S I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer S
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha S 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 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) S
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 A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye S Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau S
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe S Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha S
.. 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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley S A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe S
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant S The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld S
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus S A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw S
