the oddity lexicon: quotes - wordz to live by...
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Claud Cockburn
"Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. - Unknown
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. - Christopher Lasch
The more things change, the more they remain...insane. - Michael Fry & T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. - Saki (1870 - 1916)
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katharine Hepburn
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. - New York City detective
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. - Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. - Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - ), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. - Rabbi Julius Gordon
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. - Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed. - David Frost
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth. - Charles Luckman
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. - Robert Anton Wilson
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. - Howard Dietz
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