I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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 I
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "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 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I
