"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) R "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons R
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana R "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian R
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham R A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito R
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein R "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g R
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 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West R When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar R
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) R 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 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 R
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin R "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort R
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln R Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs R
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove R A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) R
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein 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 We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney R The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld R
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst R The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "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) R
