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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Musicians Union Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Musicians Union
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Musicians Union Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Musicians Union
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Musicians Union Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Musicians Union
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Musicians Union I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Musicians Union
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Musicians Union That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Musicians Union
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Musicians Union The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Musicians Union
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Musicians Union your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Musicians Union
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 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 Musicians Union Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Musicians Union
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 "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) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Musicians Union Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Musicians Union
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Musicians Union "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Musicians Union
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Musicians Union "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Musicians Union
