Quotes, October 2000
01. "He's a wonderful guy and a terrific doctor. Never lost a patient. Got a couple of them pregnant, but never lost one."
- Woody Allen in "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"
02. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
- Vladimir Nabokov
03. Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
- Janis Joplin
04. If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
- Tom Lehrer
05. Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
- Clive Barnes
06. Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.
- Unknown
07. It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory.
- French Proverb
08. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
- Howard Aiken
09. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
- Cyril Connolly
10. Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
- Henry Kissinger
11. There are two rules for success. . .
1) Never tell everything you know.
- Roger H. Lincoln
12. Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore;
So much the better, you may laugh the more.
- Giovanni G. Casanova
13. Love conquers all - except poverty and tooth ache.
- Mae West
14. Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.
- Bruce Feirstein
15. He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot.
- Unknown
16. War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
- Unknown
17. A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
- Evan Esar
18. Life is one long process of getting tired.
- Samuel Butler
19. Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
- Saul Alinsky
20. Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke
21. The best career advice given to the young is: Find out what you like best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
- Katherine Whitehorn
22. I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'
- Bruce Baum
23. Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary
24. Scout: Kid dressed like an idiot led by a an idiot who's dressed like a kid.
- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
25. Teamwork: A chance to blame someone else.
- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
26. Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
27. Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
28. Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
- Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary
29. Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"
30. Politics: From the greek poly, meaning many, and ticks, a small, annoying bloodsucker.
- Unknown
31. A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
- Aristotle
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