The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain T "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) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) T
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa T Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) T
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost T When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson T
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill T A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana T
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg T I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen T
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) T Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard T
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry 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 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) T Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) T
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch T I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner T
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw T 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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber T
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show T It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) T
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th T 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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein T
