"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley 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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Arts and Entertainment
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Arts and Entertainment The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Arts and Entertainment
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Arts and Entertainment Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Arts and Entertainment
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous 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 Arts and Entertainment Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Arts and Entertainment
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Arts and Entertainment Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Arts and Entertainment
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Arts and Entertainment My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Arts and Entertainment
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Arts and Entertainment "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Arts and Entertainment Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Arts and Entertainment
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Arts and Entertainment Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment
