A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Photography "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire 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 Photography
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Photography Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Photography
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Photography The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Photography
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Photography Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Photography
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Photography To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Photography Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Photography I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "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) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Photography
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Photography In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Photography
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Photography Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Photography
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Photography For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Photography
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Photography I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Photography
