January 2012
28 posts
“You cannot have peace, when you are avoiding life.” —Virginia Wolf (The Hours 2002)
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. - Friedrich Nietzsche
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. - Alfred Hitchcock
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward De Bono
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. - Mark Twain
Stoop and you’ll be stepped on; stand tall and you’ll be shot at. - Carlos A. Urbizo
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers
If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; But if you really make them think, they’ll hate you. - Don Marquis
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record. - Tom Masson
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. - Saint Augustine
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend’s love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better. - Randy K. Milholland
Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. - Evan Esar
“ We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
You see what power is - holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them!
Amy Tan (1952 - )
Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant. - Scott Adams
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. - Joseph Conrad
I don’t generally feel anything until noon; then it’s time for my nap. - Bob Hope
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. - Bernard Bailey
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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. - Russell Baker
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Sir Winston Churchill
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. - Thomas H. Huxley
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. - Arthur Stringer
Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet. - Mae West
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. - Stephen Vizinczey
December 2011
31 posts
It’s never just a game when you’re winning. - George Carlin
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. - Rita Mae Brown
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. - Mark Twain
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. - Paul Valery
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. - Salvador Dali
Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. - Evan Esar
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. - Sir Winston Churchill
“ The last of the human freedoms - to choose
one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. ” ….Viktor Frankl
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say. - Samuel Johnson
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. - Oscar Wilde
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei
Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines. - John Benfield
Life is a sexually transmitted disease. - R. D. Laing
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. - H. Mumford Jones
I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor’s office was full of portraits by Picasso. - Rita Rudner
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling. - Paula Poundstone
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. - Aneurin Bevan