"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Arts and Entertainment Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Arts and Entertainment
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Arts and Entertainment If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Arts and Entertainment
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Arts and Entertainment A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Arts and Entertainment
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Arts and Entertainment Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Arts and Entertainment "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Arts and Entertainment Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Arts and Entertainment
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Arts and Entertainment "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Arts and Entertainment
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Arts and Entertainment Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Arts and Entertainment
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Arts and Entertainment "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Arts and Entertainment
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Arts and Entertainment
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis 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 Arts and Entertainment Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Arts and Entertainment
