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- There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
- Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
- When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal husband, 1893
- After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
- George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899
- When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
- I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
- Shelley Winters (1922 - 2006)
- Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.
- Roger Allen
- Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"
- Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
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