Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V News and Media I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton News and Media
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield News and Media The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden News and Media
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) News and Media "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words News and Media
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "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) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) News and Media
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I News and Media The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison News and Media
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings News and Media The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams News and Media
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery News and Media "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, News and Media
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 News and Media Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau News and Media
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach News and Media "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) News and Media
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 News and Media Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) News and Media
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) News and Media Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. News and Media
