| Week |
Quote |
Author |
| 1/5/03 |
"The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth." |
Marvin D. Levy |
| 1/12/03 |
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation." |
Pearl S. Buck |
| 1/19/03 |
"Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the 19th century it was a disease; in the 20th century, it�s a cure." |
Thomas Szasz |
| 1/26/03 |
"One of the greatest sounds of them all... is utter, complete silence." |
Andre Kostelanetz |
| 2/2/03 |
"Sometimes too much drink is barely enough." & "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." |
Mark Twain |
| 2/9/03 |
"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death." |
R.D. Laing |
| 2/16/03 |
"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything." |
Willa Sibert Cather |
| 2/23/03 |
"She had a smile I would accept as my last view of earth." |
Wallace Stegner |
| 3/2/03 |
"The carp was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second and third degree. Limp, I fell into a chair, with my hands still unwashed reached for a cigarette, lighted it and waited for the police to come and take me into custody." |
Alice B. Toklas |
| 3/9/03 |
"Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books." & "Consistency is contrary to nature... The only completely consistent people are the dead." |
Aldous Huxely |
| 3/16/03 |
"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you have something to say." |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 3/23/03 |
"It is well that war is so terrible - we should grow too fond of it." |
Robert E. Lee |
| 3/30/03 |
"You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live." |
Alexander Pope |
| 4/6/03 |
"I don�t hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent to anyone else�s hate." & "I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life." |
Elsa Maxwell |
| 4/13/03 |
"So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face." |
Yogi Berra |
| 4/20/03 |
"Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." |
Winston Churchill |
| 4/27/03 |
"My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off." |
Ray Bradbury |
| 5/4/03 |
"If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand." |
Jonathan Aitken |
| 5/11/03 |
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." |
Jerome K. Jerome |
| 5/18/03 |
"I do have one regret... I haven�t had enough sex." |
John Betjeman |
| 5/25/03 |
"Some see the glass as half-empty; some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big." |
George Carlin |
| 6/1/03 |
"Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?" |
Arthur Miller |
| 6/8/03 |
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." |
Hunter S. Thompson |
| 6/15/03 |
"Personally, I would sooner have written Alice In Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica." |
Stephen Leacock |
| 6/22/03 |
"A sense of humor... is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself." |
Clifton Fadiman |
| 6/29/03 |
"We cannot change our policy now. After all, we are not political whores." |
Benito Mussolini |
| 7/6/03 |
"Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult." |
Edmund Gwenn |
| 7/13/03 |
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." |
Caskie Stinnett |
| 7/20/03 |
"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think." |
James A. Garfield |
| 7/27/03 |
"One whiskey is all right; two is too much; three is too few." |
Derek Cooper |
| 8/3/03 |
"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury." |
E. H. Chapin |
| 8/10/03 |
"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." |
Oscar Wilde |
| 8/17/03 |
"The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds." |
Jawaharial Nehru |
| 8/24/03 |
"It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year." |
Tom Lehrer |
| 8/31/03 |
"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends." |
Mary Catherwood |
| 9/7/03 |
"Enjoy every sandwich." |
Jordan Zevon |
| 9/14/03 |
"They smacked us in the mouth and said, "You like that?" Evidently we said yes, because we let them smack us in the mouth again." |
Mike Ditka |
| 9/21/03 |
"Nothing is more embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn�t be done." |
Sam Ewing |
| 9/28/03 |
"You only live once, but if you live it right, once is enough." |
Adam Marshall |
| 10/5/03 |
"Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism." |
Earl Warren |
| 10/12/03 |
"The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Emperor Long has an intellect." |
Harold L. Ickes |
| 10/19/03 |
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." |
Frank Sinatra |
| 10/26/03 |
"What can you do with Beethoven�s seventh? It�s like a lot of yaks jumping about." |
Thomas Beecham |
| 11/2/03 |
"A man had rather have a hundred lies told about him, than one truth which he does not wish should be told." |
Samuel Johnson |
| 11/9/03 |
"No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink." |
G. K. Chesterton |
| 11/16/03 |
"Self-plagiarism is style." |
Alfred Hitchcock |
| 11/23/03 |
"Lee was such a fine, high-class boy... If my son killed the president he would have said so. That�s the way he was brought up." |
Marguerite Oswald |
| 11/30/03 |
"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means." |
Tom Stoppard |
| 12/7/03 |
"Your works will be read after Shakespeare and Milton are forgotten - and not till then." |
Richard Porson |
| 12/14/03 |
"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it." |
Thomas Carlyle |
| 12/21/03 |
"I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories." |
Irving Washington |
| 12/28/03 |
"The Who is a bloody wild animal which has to be fed chunks of raw meat and Southern Comfort. It can�t feed on anything less." |
Pete Townshend |
