Duct tape is like… Carl Zwanzig
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together…
Carl Zwanzig
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A man in love is… Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
US (Hungarian-born) actress (1919 - )
March 26th, 2006 - Posted in Zsa Zsa Gabor | | 0 Comments
Love: The delusion… H. L. Mencken
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
March 25th, 2006 - Posted in H. L. Mencken | | 0 Comments
The weak can never… Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader (1869 - 1948)
March 24th, 2006 - Posted in Mahatma Gandhi | | 0 Comments
The fixity of a… Marcel Proust
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
French novelist (1871 - 1922)
March 23rd, 2006 - Posted in Marcel Proust | | 0 Comments
In heaven all the… Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
March 22nd, 2006 - Posted in Friedrich Nietzsche | | 0 Comments
It is a kind of… Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960)
March 21st, 2006 - Posted in Albert Camus | | 0 Comments
The world is a… Karl Kraus
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Karl Kraus
Austrian author and journalist (1874 - 1936)
March 20th, 2006 - Posted in Karl Kraus | | 0 Comments
I have the true… Franz Kafka
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka
Austrian (Czechoslovakian-born) author (1883 - 1924)
March 19th, 2006 - Posted in Franz Kafka | | 0 Comments
A man likes his… Israel Zangwill
A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
Israel Zangwill
March 18th, 2006 - Posted in Israel Zangwill | | 0 Comments
Remarriage is an… Margo Kaufman
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
Margo Kaufman
March 17th, 2006 - Posted in Margo Kaufman | | 0 Comments
Reason should… Cicero
Reason should direct and appetite obey.
Cicero
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
March 16th, 2006 - Posted in Cicero | | 0 Comments
They devoted the… The Book of Joshua 6:21
They devoted the city to the lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it - men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
The Book of Joshua 6:21
March 15th, 2006 - Posted in The Book of Joshua 6:21 | | 0 Comments
I hope that one or… Poet Louise Bogan
I hope that one or two immortal lyrics will come out of all this tumbling around.
Poet Louise Bogan
March 14th, 2006 - Posted in Poet Louise Bogan | | 0 Comments
There is no money… Robert Graves
There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
Robert Graves
British author & classical scholar (1895 - 1985)
March 13th, 2006 - Posted in Robert Graves | | 0 Comments
When the doors of… William Blake
When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.
William Blake
English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 - 1827)
March 12th, 2006 - Posted in William Blake | | 0 Comments
Religions change;… Hervey Allen
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
Hervey Allen
March 11th, 2006 - Posted in Hervey Allen | | 0 Comments
Christ died for our… Jules Feiffer
Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
US cartoonist & satirist (1929 - )
March 10th, 2006 - Posted in Jules Feiffer | | 0 Comments
What if there had… Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity
What if there had been room at the inn?
Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity
March 9th, 2006 - Posted in Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity | | 0 Comments
I detest converts… H. L. Mencken
I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
March 8th, 2006 - Posted in H. L. Mencken | | 0 Comments
The best way to… Josh Billings
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings
US Humorist (1818 - 1885)
March 7th, 2006 - Posted in Josh Billings | | 0 Comments
Too bad the only… George Burns
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
George Burns
US actor & comedian (1896 - 1996)
March 6th, 2006 - Posted in George Burns | | 0 Comments
Get all the fools… Frank Dane
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane
March 5th, 2006 - Posted in Frank Dane | | 0 Comments
Democracy is a… Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988)
March 4th, 2006 - Posted in Laurence J. Peter | | 0 Comments
I have perfumed my… Proverbs 7:17-18
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.
Proverbs 7:17-18
March 3rd, 2006 - Posted in Proverbs 7:17-18 | | 0 Comments
Monogamy is the… H.H. Munro (Saki)
Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses.
H.H. Munro (Saki)
March 2nd, 2006 - Posted in H.H. Munro (Saki) | | 0 Comments
Morality is simply… Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
March 1st, 2006 - Posted in Oscar Wilde | | 0 Comments