The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) E-zines Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe E-zines
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich 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 "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West E-zines blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov E-zines
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) 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
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. E-zines 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 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 E-zines
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein E-zines The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw E-zines
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau E-zines Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec E-zines
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn E-zines We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) E-zines
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) E-zines "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley E-zines
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi E-zines "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) E-zines
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will E-zines If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) E-zines
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. E-zines There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, E-zines
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine E-zines To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein E-zines
