"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry 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 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Powys 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Powys
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Powys Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Powys
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Powys They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Powys
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "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 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 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 I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Powys "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Powys
"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, We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Powys The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Powys
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Powys Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Powys
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Powys More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Powys
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Powys "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Powys
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Powys For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Powys
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 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Powys "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Powys
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Powys Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Powys
