"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Attractions I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Attractions
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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Attractions Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Attractions
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Attractions "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Attractions
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Attractions You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Attractions
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Attractions The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Attractions
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Attractions "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Attractions
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. 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 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Attractions "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Attractions
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Attractions "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Attractions
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Attractions I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Attractions
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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Attractions "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Attractions
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Attractions "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Attractions
