The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West P "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells P
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) P Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) P
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) P "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov P
"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) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard P Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) P
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. P In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain P
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) P "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere P
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) P It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler P
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton P Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel P
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi 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 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman P Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde P
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright P All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all P
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb P In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte P
