Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy 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 I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard J "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" J
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard J "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) J
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce J More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) J
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge J Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein J
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon J "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn J
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner J I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. J
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd J "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) J Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) J
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 J To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor J
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa J "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) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth J
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside J blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. J
