"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan A We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A
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 We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi A Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) A Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha A I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "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 A blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz A
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie A Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) A
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from A 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 A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) A
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar 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 A "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A
