************************* Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. –Groucho Marx *************************
Credo quia absurdum est. –Tertullian ************************* .The desire for security stands against every great and noble enterprise. –Tacitus ************************* .Man’s deepest social instinct is his antisocial instinct. –Robert Musil ************************* .The meaning of life is that it ends. –Kafka ************************* .Don’t bunch up. –US Marine Corps Manual ************************* .Society, like any collective, is a soulless entity. It is humanity that has been institutionalized, mechanised, almost mineralised. –Ortega y Gasset ************************* .When a lot of people agree about something, it’s either a stupid idea or a beautiful woman. –Ortega y Gassett *************************
.The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! –Friedrich Nietzsche ************************* .The strongest man is he who stands alone in the world. –Henrik Ibsen ************************* .Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. –Emerson ************************* .Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here…Then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.
–Alfred Sloan Jr. ************************* It’s good to keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
– Jacob Needleman ************************* If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ~ Howard Zinn ************************* And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!
–Alexander Solzhenitsyn ************************* Scratch a lover, and find a foe. – Dorothy Parker ************************* They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. – Dorothy Parker ************************* A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. – Dorothy Parker ************************* If you dont knit, bring a good . – Dorothy Parker (play review in its entirety) ************************* Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
–Dorothy Parker ************************* I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.
Dorothy Parker ************************* I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
Dorothy Parker I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
Dorothy Parker If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you.
Dorothy Parker It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.
Dorothy Parker It’s a small apartment, I’ve barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.
Dorothy Parker
- Los Angeles is 72 suburbs in search of a city.
Dorothy Parker - Love is like quick-silver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker - My land is bare of chattering folk;
the clouds are low along the ridges,
and sweet’s the air with curly smoke
from all my burning bridges.
Dorothy Parker - Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.
Dorothy Parker
- Partial Comfort:
Whose love is given over-well
Will look on Helen’s face in Hell;
While they whose love is thin and wise
May view John Knox in Paradise.
Dorothy Parker - Scratch a king and find a fool!
Dorothy Parker - See the happy moron,
He doesn’t give a damn.
I wish I were a moron,
My God! Perhaps I am!
Dorothy Parker