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If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Cowbridge "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Cowbridge
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Cowbridge "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) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Cowbridge
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "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) Cowbridge "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Cowbridge
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Cowbridge Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Cowbridge
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Cowbridge "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Cowbridge
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "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) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Cowbridge My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Cowbridge
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Cowbridge "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Cowbridge
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cowbridge blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Cowbridge
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Cowbridge The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Cowbridge
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 Cowbridge You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Cowbridge
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Cowbridge "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Cowbridge
