"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "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) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Caerphilly County Borough The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Caerphilly County Borough
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Caerphilly County Borough Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Caerphilly County Borough
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Caerphilly County Borough 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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Caerphilly County Borough
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Caerphilly County Borough "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Caerphilly County Borough
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Caerphilly County Borough "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Caerphilly County Borough
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Caerphilly County Borough Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Caerphilly County Borough
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Caerphilly County Borough Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Caerphilly County Borough
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Caerphilly County Borough Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Caerphilly County Borough
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Caerphilly County Borough "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Caerphilly County Borough
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Caerphilly County Borough Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Caerphilly County Borough
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Caerphilly County Borough Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Caerphilly County Borough
