Quote from Mary Kay Ash

Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else.It's the people with follow-through who excel.-Mary Kay Ash

Quote from William S.Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.-William S.Burroughs

Great quote from Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.-Henry David Thoreau

Quote from Robert Louis Stevenson

Vanity dies hard;in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.-Robert Louis Stevenson

Quote from Carolyn Wells

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.-Carolyn Wells

Quote on poets

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.-Jim Jarmusch

Great quote from Jello Biafra

If evolution is outlawed,only outlaws will evolve.-Jello Biafra

Quote on lawyers

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses:thick-skinned,short-sighted,and always ready to charge.-David Mellor

Another quote from Carolyn Wells

Of two evils choose the prettier.-Carolyn Wells

Quote from Carolyn Wells

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.-Carolyn Wells

Quote from Roger Tory Peterson

I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching.Before I came along,the primary way to observe birds was to shoot them and stuff them.-Roger Tory Peterson

Interesting website on the assassination of John F.Kennedy

www.jfkmurdersolved.com

Quote from George Herbert

Be calm in arguing,for fierceness makes error a fault,and truth discourtesy.-George Herbert

Quote on defeat

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement,but rather a fresh stimulus.-Bishop Robert South

Quote on discouragement

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.-Neal A.Maxwell

Quote from Robert Plant

Now I'm a blithering oaf hanging on to the coatsleeves of commerciality.-Robert Plant

Quote from Stephen Jay Gould

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades,we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.-Stephen Jay Gould

Quote from Walter Lippmann

Once you touch the biographies of human beings,the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.-Walter Lippmann

Quote on laughter

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.-Mort Walker

Great quote from Ross Perot

Life is like a cobweb,not an organization chart.-Ross Perot

Quote from Edward Koch

In action,be primitive;in foresight,a strategist.-Edward Koch

Great quote from George Will

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom,language becomes printed noise.-George Will

Quote from Arthur Baer

A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence,but doesn't climb over it.-Arthur Baer

Great quote from Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires,is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.-Jonathan Swift

Quote from John Locke

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.-John Locke

Another quote from Thomas Fuller

Today is yesterday's pupil.-Thomas Fuller

Quote on treachery

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.-Pierre Corneille

Quote from Thomas Fuller

Old foxes want no tutors.-Thomas Fuller

Quote from Edward G.Bulwer Lytton

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness;anger concealed often hardens into revenge.-Edward G.Bulwer Lytton

Quote from Jack London

Affluence means influence.-Jack London

Quote from Theodore Parker

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.-Theodore Parker

Quote from Dave Barry

The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.-Dave Barry

Great quote on optimists

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.-George Jean Nathan

Quote from Barbara Walters

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.-Barbara Walters

Quote from Neil Diamond

When you're on a merry-go-round,you miss a lot of the scenery.-Neil Diamond

Quote on The American Left

One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn,mirthless,herbivorous,dull,monochrome,righteous and boring.-Christopher Hitchens

Interesting quote from James Russell Lowell

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea,and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.-James Russell Lowell

Great quote on unpredictability

Unpredictability,too,can become monotonous.-Eric Hoffer

Quote from Dean Inge

To marry is to get a binocular view of life.-Dean Inge

Quote from Carolyn Wells

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.-Carolyn Wells

Quote from Norman Cousins

Cynicism is intellectual treason.-Norman Cousins

Quote on cynicism

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.-George Meredith

Quote from Charles Peguy

A word is not the same with one writer as with another.One tears it from his guts.The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.-Charles Peguy

Quote from Timothy Leary

If you don't like what you're doing,you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.-Timothy Leary

Quote from Laurell K.Hamilton

You either mellow at 30,or your head explodes-take your choice.-Laurell K.Hamilton

Quote from Washington Irving

Sweet is the memory of distant friends!Like the mellow rays of the departing sun,it falls tenderly,yet sadly ,on the heart.-Washington Irving

Quote from George Steiner

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand.The man of genius casts light.-George Steiner

Interesting websites on radio and music

1 http://over50music.com
2 www.mrpophistory.com
3 http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com
4 www.oldiesmusic.com
5 http://rockradioscrapbook.ca
6 http://newstalkradio.com
7 http://johnrook.com
8 www.radioinfo.com
9 www.insideradio.com
10 www.broadcastdialogue.com

Quote from George Steiner

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.-George Steiner

Quote from Stephen Phillips

I am not old but mellow like good wine.-Stephen Phillips

Some great blogs and websites

1 www.factcheck.org
2 www.lifehacker.com
3 www.straightdope.com
4 www.thedailymeal.com
5 www.metacritic.com
6 www.tvnewscheck.com
7 http://tvline.com
8 http://kenlevine.blogspot.com
9 http://rickkaempfer.blogspot.com
10 www.greenbookofsongs.com

Another quote from George Steiner

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.-George Steiner

Insightful quote from George Steiner

To many men the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.-George Steiner

Quote from Cyril Connolly

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?-Cyril Connolly

Quote from Aldous Huxley

Feasts must be solemn and rare,or else they cease to be feasts.-Aldpus Huxley

Insightful quote from Timothy Leary

We're dealing with the best-educated generation in history.But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.-Timothy Leary

Quote from Timothy Leary

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.-Timothy Leary

Quote from Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

A couple of interesting blogs

1 http://oldediscjockeysalmanac.blogspot.ca
2 www.vintageallies.com

Quote from David Bowie

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.-David Bowie

Quote from David Mamet

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.-David Mamet

Quote from Frank Harris

Sex is the gateway to life.-Frank Harris

Quote from Irving Wallace

To be one's self,and unafraid whether right or wrong,is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.-Irving Wallace

Quote from Denis Waitley

Change the changeable,accept the unchangeable,and remove yourself from the unacceptable.-Denis Waitley

Quote from Cyril Connolly

Purity engenders wisdom,Passion avarice,and Ignorance folly,infatuation and darkness.-Cyril Connolly

Quote from Alfred Hitchcock

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat:cut it.-Alfred Hitchcock

Quote on violence

Violence isn't always evil.What's evil is the infatuation with violence.-Jim Morrison

Quote from Mason Cooley

Fastidious taste makes enjoyment a struggle.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Gloria Swanson

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth.-Gloria Swanson

Quote from Jimmy Carter

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.-Jimmy Carter

Quote on talent

Talent is cheaper than table salt.What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.-Stephen King

Quote from Thomas Merton

The tighter you squeeze,the less you have.-Thomas Merton

Great quote on management

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand.Squeeze too hard and you kill it,not hard enough and it flies away.-Tommy LaSorda

Great quote on promiscuity and monogamy

Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page.Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Moe Howard

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple.-Moe Howard

Quote from Karl Kraus

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.-Karl Kraus

Quote from Rick Springfield

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.-Rick Springfield

Quote from Edwin Hubbell Chapin

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches;and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Quote from H.L.Mencken

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.-H.L.Mencken

Quote from Mortimer Adler

We love even when our love is not requited.-Mortimer Adler

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

Without art,the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote from Barbara Kingsolver

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.-Barbara Kingsolver

Great quote from Georges Courteline

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself,life would be unbearable.-Georges Courteline

Great quote from Oscar Wilde

I can stand brute force,but brute reason is quite unbearable.There is something unfair about its use.It is hitting below the intellect.-Oscar Wilde

Great quote from Timothy Leary

Civilization is unbearable,but it is less unbearable at the top.-Timothy Leary

Quote from Edward Marsh

In defeat unbeatable;in victory,unbearable.-Edward Marsh

Quote from Gloria Swanson

I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.-Gloria Swanson,American actress

Quote from Barbara Walters

Wait for those unguarded moments.Relax the mood and,like the child dropping off to sleep,the subject often reveals his truest self.-Barbara Walters

Quote from Paul Harris

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.-Paul Harris

Quote from Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Fashion is the science of appearances,and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin(1814-1880)

Quote on the Internet

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.-Bill Gates

Quote from Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.-Ezra Pound

Quote on neutral men

Neutral men are the devil's allies.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Edwin Louis Cole

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.-Edwin Louis Cole

Great quote from Edwin Hubbell Chapin

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world,there lurks a miserable cowardice.Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Quote by Edwin Louis Cole

You are committed to what you confess.-Edwin Louis Cole

Quote from Chuck Norris

Men are like steel.When they lose their temper,they lose their worth.-Chuck Norris

A trio of good quotes

1.Fear attracts attack.-Edwin Louis Cole
2.Good is often the enemy of best.-Edwin Louis Cole
3.You've got to have steel in you somewhere.-Alan Bates

Quote on ostentation

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Quote from Edwin Louis Cole

There is a high cost for low living.-Edwin Louis Cole

Quote on justice

The essence of justice is mercy.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Quote from Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.-Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Quote on character

Character is more important than talent.-Edwin Louis Cole

Quote from Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast,not the feast.-Edwin Louis Cole

Quote from H.Jackson Brown ,Jr.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.-H.Jackson Brown  Jr.

Quote from Carl Sagan

Skeptical scrutiny is the means,in both science and religion,by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.-Carl Sagan

Quote from Jim Rohn

You cannot change your destination overnight,but you can change your direction overnight.-Jim Rohn

Quote from Amy Lowell

Moon!Moon!I am prone before you.
Pity me and drench me in loneliness.-Amy Lowell

Another quote from Bill Maher

Curious people are interesting people.I wonder why that is.-Bill Maher

Quote from Dennis Miller

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.-Dennis Miller

Quote from Bill Maher

Men are only as loyal as their options.-Bill Maher

Quote from David Hockney

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny.The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.-David Hockney

Great quote from John Kenneth Galbraith

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.-John Kenneth Galbraith

Quote from Lew Wallace

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.-Lew Wallace

Quote from Mitch Albom

You're not a wave,you're a part of the ocean.-Mitch Albom

Great quote on Washington ,DC

Washington,DC is to lying what Wisconsin is to cheese.-Dennis Miller

Great quote on fettucini alfredo

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.-Mitch Hedburg

Quote from James Joyce

A corpse is meat gone bad.Well and what's cheese?Corpse of milk.-James Joyce

Inspiring quote from Napoleon Hill

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.-Napoleon Hill

Quote from Marc Webb

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.-Marc Webb

Quote from Mitch Albom

Critics have a problem with sentimentality.Readers do not.I write for readers.-Mitch Albom

Quote on reading

Reading is like the sex act- done privately,and often in bed.-Daniel J.Boorstin

Interesting quote from Daniel J.Boorstin

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.-Daniel J.Boorstin

Another quote from Enid Bagnold

As for death one gets used to it,even if it's only other people's death you get used to.-Enid Bagnold

Quote from Enid Bagnold

Judges don't age;time decorates them.-Enid Bagnold

Quote from Stephen King

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.-Stephen King

Insightful quote from Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age;but,if so,it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door,and this dragon is religion.-Bertrand Russell

Quote from Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.-Jane Jacobs

Quote on sentimentality

Sentimentality-that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.-Graham Greene

Quote from Cyril Connolly

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.-Cyril Connolly

Quote on best-sellers

A best-seller is a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.-Daniel J.Boorstin

Quote from Michelle Malkin

Silence is complicity.Speak now or surrender your ground.-Michelle Malkin

Quote from Eric Hoffer

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.-Eric Hoffer

Quote from Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.-Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Quote on bigotry

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.-Charles Caleb Colton

Quote from Doug Horton

Good ideas are a dime a dozen,bad ones are free.-Douglas Horton

Quote on slang

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.-Anthony Burgess

Quote from Stephen Vincent Benet

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.-Stephen Vincent Benet

Quote on self-pity

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress.Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.-Maya Angelou

Superb quote from Bruce Lee

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked,while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.-Bruce Lee

Quote from George Carlin

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace.What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.-George Carlin

Quote from Norman Thomas

I always get more applause than votes.-Norman Thomas

Quote from John Bright

Popular applause veers with the wind.-John Bright

Quote from P.D.James

Human kindness is like a defective tap,the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.-.P.D.James

Quote from Don Everly

Old men need applause too.-Don Everly

Quote on applause

Applause is a receipt,not a bill.-Dale Carnegie

Great quote from Alexis Carrel

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.-Alexis Carrel

Great quote from Kate Chopin

There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.-Kate Chopin

Quote on polygamy

Polygamy:An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.-Elbert Hubbard

Quote from Benny Goodman

Some of the overflow audience actually sat on the stage.-Benny Goodman

Great quote from Dinesh D'Souza

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.-Dinesh D'Souza

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To sentence a man of true genius,to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Quote from Glenn Beck

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?-Glenn Beck

Quote from Diane Ackerman

We live on the leash of our senses.-Diane Ackerman

Another quote from Wilson Mizner

The most efficient water power in the world:women's tears.-Wilson Mizner

Quote from Wilson Mizner

Art is science made clear.-Wilson Mizner

Another quote on popularity

Popularity is exhausting.The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.-Wilson Mizner

Quote on popularity

Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians.If it would depend on popularity,Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in Senate.-Orson Welles

Quote from Mason Cooley

The gods are watching,but idly,yawning.-Mason Cooley

Quote from Max Beerbohm

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.-Max Beerbohm

Quote from Sarah Fielding

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balmk or honey.-Sarah Fielding

Quote from Henry George

There is danger in reckless change,but greater danger in blind conservatism.-Henry George

Another quote from Wilson Mizner

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.-Wilson Mizner

Quote from Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.-Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Another quote from Wilson Mizner

Don't talk about yourself;it will be done when you leave.-Wilson Mizner

Quote from Wilson Mizner

God help those who do not help themselves.-Wilson Mizner

Quote from Sigmund Romberg

A love song is just a caress set to music.-Sigmund Romberg

Quote from Kenny Rogers

There is a trade-off --as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.-Kenny Rogers

Quote from David Hockney

You must plan to be spontaneous.-David Hockney

Quote on pleasure

The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.-Germaine Greer

Great quote from Wilson Mizner

Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.-Wilson Mizner

Quote fropm Jack Lemmon

Failure seldom stops you.What stops you is the fear of failure.-Jack Lemmon

Quote from William Henry Hudson

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.-William Henry Hudson

Quote from Arthur Baer

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.-Arthur Baer

Quote from John Fletcher

The coward's weapon,poison.-John Fletcher

Quote from Edwin Louis Cole

A fast is not a hunger strike.Fasting submits to God's commands.A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.-Edwin Louis Cole

Quote from Woody Allen

Comedy just pokes at problems,rarely confronts them squarely.Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes,comedy is rather the sessert,a bit like meringue.-Woody Allen

Great quote from William Powell

Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal,since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.-William Powell

Quote from Adam Clayton

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements-it's not an achievement in itself,but sometimes it can overpower the work.-Adam Clayton

Quote from Paul Auster

We construct a narrative for ourselves,and that's the thread we follow from one day to the next.People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.-Paul Auster

Quote from Arthur Baer

His insomnia was so bad,he couldn't sleep during office hours.-Arthur Baer

Quote from John Still

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.-John Still

Quote from George Herbert

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.-George Herbert

Quote from Dennis Potter

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.-Dennis Potter

Quote on rich people

With the greater part of rich people,the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.-Adam Smith

Quote on leadership

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.-John Naisbitt

Quote from Philip James Bailey

Man is a military animal,glories in gunpowder,and loves parade.-Philip James Bailey

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,and urge doing.I am content with knowing,if only I could know.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Leslie Charteris

The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline,which of course means something disparaging ,because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.-Leslie Charteris

Naisbitt

Insightful quote from Vannevar Bush

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit.In fact,to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.-Vannevar Bush

Quote on media

Media,the plural of mediocrity.-Jimmy Breslin

Quote from Frank Lloyd Wright

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.-Frank Lloyd Wright

Quote from Martha Graham

The only sin is mediocrity.-Martha Graham

Quote from Oscar Levant

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.-Oscar Levant

Quote on conscience

Conscience is the window of our spirit,evil is the curtain.-Douglas Horton

Quote on dreams

Not all lucid dreams are useful but they all have a sense of wonder about them.If you must sleep through a third of your life,why should you sleep through your dreams,too?-Stephen Laberge

Quote on the stock market

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.-Daniel Brew

Quote from Anna Seward

Time's stern tide,with cold oblivion's wave,shall soon dissolve each fair,each fading charm.-Anna Seward

Quote from Carl Sandburg

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.-Carl Sandburg

Quote on vanity

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.-George Sand

Quote on dreamers

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight,and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.-Oscar Wilde

Quote on jazz

Jazz tickles your muscles,symphonies stretch your soul.-Paul Whiteman

Quote on apathy

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.-Horace Greeley

Quote from Richard LeGallienne

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.-Richard Le Gallienne

Quote from Philip Wylie

Ignorance is not bliss-it is oblivion.-Philip Wylie

Quote from Allen Ginsberg

Follow your inner moonlight;don't hide the madness.-Allen Ginsberg

Quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moonlight is sculpture.-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Quote from William Wordsworth

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lonely.-William Wordsworth

Quote on shyness

Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.-Penelope Keith

Quote on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.-Stephen Evans

Work by B.C.Forbes

Work is the meat of life,pleasure the dessert.-B.C.Forbes

Quote from James Thurber

The past is an old armchair in the attic,the present an ominous ticking sound,and the future is anybody's guess.-James Thurber

Quote from Rick Scott

Reviewing a government budget is much like going through the attic in an old home.-Rick Scott

Great quote on curiosity

Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.-Jeremy Taylor

Quote from John Mason

As every thread of gold is valuable,so is every moment of time.-John Mason

Good quote from Elizabeth Bowen

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.-Elizabeth Bowen

Quote on the death penalty

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.-Bianca Jagger

Quote from Arthur Koestler

In the pun,two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.-Arthur Koestler

Quote from Saint Augustine

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.-Saint Augustine

Quote from John Dingell

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread.Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.-John Dingell

Quote on lawyers

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same.This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.-Florynce R.Kennedy

Quote from Mickey Spillane

Authors want their names down in history;I want to keep smoke coming out of the chimney.-Mickey Spillane

Great quote from Elihu Root

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.-Elihu Root

Quote on Censorship

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.-Federico Fellini

Quote from W.H.Auden

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.-W.H.Auden

Quote from John Locke

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter,when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.-John Locke

Quote from Jean Cocteau

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.-Jean Cocteau

Quote from John Cheever

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.-John Cheever

Quote from James Thurber

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.-James Thurber

Great quote on erudition

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.-Georg C.Lichtenberg

Quote from Ann Landers

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet;a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.-Ann Landers

Quote on fanaticism

Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.-Edward Gibbon

Quote from Sam Levenson

If you die in an elevator,be sure to push the up button.-Sam Levenson

Quote on superstition

Superstition is the poison of the mind.-Joseph Lewis

Quote from Edwin Land

Politeness is the poison of collaboration.-Edwin Land

Quote on insomnia

Insomnia is a gross feeder.It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking,including thinking about not thinking.-Clifton Fadiman

Quote from Ann Landers

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.-Ann Landers

Quote on the law

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.-Arthur Baer

Quote from Nicholas Johnson

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter.-Nicholas Johnson

Quote from Frank Gorshin

The finer the bait,the shorter the wait!-Frank Gorshin

Quote from Enoch Powell

To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.-Enoch Powell

Quote from Helen Dunmore

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.-Helen Dunmore

Quote on plumbers

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.-Arthur Baer

Quote on housekeeping

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.-Marcelene Cox

Great quote from Henry Ward Beecher

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.-Henry Ward Beecher

Quote from Eric Hoffer

The world leans on us.When we sag,the whole world seems to droop.-Eric Hoffer

Quote from Jon Stewart

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.-Jon Stewart

Quote from Dennis Potter

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.-Dennis Potter

Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote from Irving Layton

Conscience:Self-esteem with a halo.-Irving Layton

Quote from Irving Layton

Conscience:Self-esteem with a halo.-Irving Layton

Quote from Barbara Tuchman

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.-Barbara Tuchman

Great quote from Geri Halliwell

Being a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume.It's much more intense.-Geri Haliwell

Superb quote on plagiarism

If we steal thoughts from the moderns,it will be cried down as plagiarism;if from the ancients,it will be cried up as erudition.-Charles Caleb Colton

Quote from Charles M.Schwab

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.-Charles M.Schwab

Great quote from Ann Landers

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.-Ann Landers

Quote on Hollywood

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.-Wilson Mizner

Quote from John Madden

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.-John Madden

Great quote from Frank Zappa

Without deviation progress is not possible.-Frank Zappa

Quote from Hugh Leonard

Gossip is more popular than literature.-Hugh Leonard

Interesting quote from Dee Hock

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.-Dee Hock

Quote from Jacques Yves Cousteau

The sea is the universal sewer.-Jacques Yves Cousteau

Quote on gossip

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.-Erica Jong

Quote from Samuel Richardson

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.-Samuel Richardson

Quote from George Harrison

Gossip is the devil's radio.-George Harrison

Quote from George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.-George Bernard Shaw

Quote on ego

Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.-John Bradshaw

Great quote from Ellen Goodman

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience-unless they are still up.-Ellen Goodman,columnist for THE BOSTON GLOBE.

Quote from Cat Stevens

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.-Cat Stevens

Great quote on marriage

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.-Charles Caleb Colton

Great quote from Napoleon Hill

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.-Napoleon Hill

Quote from Frank McCourt

Happiness is hard to recall.It's just a glow.-Frank McCourt

Quote from Frank McCourt

Happiness is hard to recall.It's just a glow.-Frank McCourt

Quote from Ellen Goodman

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.-Ellen Goodman,American journalist and newspaper columnist for THE BOSTON GLOBE.

Quote from Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not clumsy,I'm just accident-prone.-Daniel Radcliffe

Quote on honor

Honor is but an empty bubble.-John Dryden

Quote from Edward De Bono

If you wait for opportunities to occur,you will be one of the crowd.-Edward De Bono

A Jewish proverb

In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter.-Jewish proverb

Quote from William Arthur Ward

Opportunities are like sunrises.If you wait too long,you miss them.-William Arthur Ward

Quote from George Kaufman

Epitaph for a dead waiter-God finally caught his eye.-George S.Kaufman,American painter(1889-1961)

Quote from Rowan Atkinson

The older you get,the more you realise how happenstance--has helped to determine your path through life.-Rowan Atkinson

Quote from Robert Penn Warren

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.-Robert Penn Warren,ALL THE KING'S MEN

Superb quote from Henry Louis Mencken

Government under democracy is thus government by orgy,almost by orgasm.-Henry Louis Mencken(1880-1956),American humorous journalist and critic of American life.

Quote from Al Capp

The public is like a piano.You just have to know what keys to poke.-Al Capp(1909-1979),American cartoonist

Quote from Jon Carroll

Everyone should live to be 92 years old,have an orgasm and drop dead.-Jon Carroll(b.1957),American newspaper columnist for THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE and humorist

Quote from Albert Ellis

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.-Albert Ellis

Great quote from William Faulkner

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.-William Faulkner

Insightful quote from George Bernard Shaw

Forgive him ,for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature.-George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Great quote from George Bernard Shaw

Custom will renconcile people to any atrocity;and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.-George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)

Quote from Ian Fleming

Once is happenstance.Twice is coincidence.Three times is enemy action.-Ian Fleming

Quote on writing

One should never write down or up to people ,but out of your self.-Christopher Isherwood(1904-1986)

Quote from Penelope Lively

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.-Penelope Lively

Quote from William Wordsworth

Habit rules the unreflecting herd.-William Wordsworth,ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS.

Quote on forgiveness

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.-Jewel Kilcher

Quote from Raymond Hull

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.-Raymond Hull(1919-1985),Canadian playwright

Quote from Jewel Kilcher

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.-Jewel Kilcher

Great website

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Great website

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Quote on abstract art

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.-Al Capp(1909-1979)

Superb quote from Christopher Isherwood

Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.-Christopher Isherwood(1904-1986)

Quote from Ruth Westheimer

An orgasm is just a reflex,like a sneeze.-Ruth Westheimer

Quote on interior design

Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity,helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers,the rich.-Stephen Bayley

Quote from John Callahan

Laughter and orgasm are great bedfellows.-John Callahan

Quote from Al Capp

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.-Al Capp(1909-1979),American cartoonist

Quote from Mae West

An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away.-Mae West(1892-1980)

Quote from Edward Dahlberg

Nobody heard her tears;the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977)

Quote from Sally Koch

Great opportunities to help others seldom come,but small ones surround us each day.-Sally Koch

Quote from Pearl S.Buck

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.-Pearl S.Buck

Quote from Arnold Toynbee

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.-Arnold J.Toynbee

Quote from Edward Dahlberg

Men are mad most of their lives;few live sane,fewer die so.The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered.Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977)

Quote from, Mitch Hedburg

I don't have a girlfriend.But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.-Mitch Hedburg

Quote on poets

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977)

Quote from Quentin Crisp

Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition:it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body,or even of the soul.-Quentin Crisp

Quote from Orison Swett Marden

A constant struggle,a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings,is the price of all great achievements.-Orison Swett Marden

Quote on cats

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness,two of barrenness,and three of sodomy.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977)

Witty quote from Woody Allen

In my next life I want to live backwards.Start out dead and finish off  as an orgasm.-Woody Allen

Quote from Betty Friedan

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.-Betty Friedan,American feminist.

Quote on Herman Melville

Herman Melville was as separated from civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977)

Quote from Will Durant

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time,but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.-Will Durant,American philosopher and historian

Interesting quote from Edward Dahlberg

What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977),American novelist

Quote from Edward Dahlberg

We are a most solitary people,and we live,repelled by one another,in the gray,outcast cities of Cain.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977),American novelist

Quote from Edward Dahlberg

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977)

Great quote from Howard Zinn

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.-American historian Howard Zinn

Quote from Herbert Prochnow

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.-Herbert Prochnow

Quote on genius

Genius,like truth,has a shabby and neglected mien.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977)

Quote on poets

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.-Edward Dahlberg(1900-1977)