Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi K "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) K
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') K In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein K
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "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) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous K Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. K
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the K "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words K
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) K It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) K
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev K The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) K
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln K As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal K
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France K "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n K
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. K All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) K
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) K The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal K
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 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde K Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison 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 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud K
