Francisco de Quevedo Quotes Spanish - Writer September 17, 1580 - September 8, 1645 We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there. Francisco de Quevedo In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called! Francisco de Quevedo Marquis de Condorcet Quotes French - Philosopher September 17, 1743 - March 28, 1794 Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Marquis de Condorcet I hope to see the bringing together of all the best educated people of the earth into a worldwide Congress of Scientists. Marquis de Condorcet Edgar Mitchell Quotes American - Astronaut Born: September 17, 1930 The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there. Edgar Mitchell You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. Edgar Mitchell I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real. Edgar Mitchell I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state. Edgar Mitchell Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time. Edgar Mitchell I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base. Edgar Mitchell We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. Edgar Mitchell We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation. Edgar Mitchell My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator. Edgar Mitchell Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form. Edgar Mitchell We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there. Edgar Mitchell At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military. Edgar Mitchell I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth. Edgar Mitchell Rita Rudner Quotes American - Comedian Born: September 17, 1955 I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. Rita Rudner I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. Rita Rudner I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. Rita Rudner To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.' Rita Rudner I'm a very simple person. I'm very shallow. Shallow, simple, easily pleased: that's me. Rita Rudner Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie. Rita Rudner My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping. Rita Rudner Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?' Rita Rudner I love to write jokes and that's all I think about. Rita Rudner When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always. Rita Rudner My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. Rita Rudner Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. Rita Rudner I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. Rita Rudner The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down. Rita Rudner Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire? Rita Rudner My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping. Rita Rudner I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. Rita Rudner I get a lot of return business. I think it's all those years I put in traveling around the country; people saw me before and had a good time so they want to see me again. Rita Rudner While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch. Rita Rudner Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable. Rita Rudner On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.' Rita Rudner Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke? Rita Rudner Marriages don't last. When I meet a guy, the first question I ask myself is: is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? Rita Rudner Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Rita Rudner I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet. Rita Rudner I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours. Rita Rudner In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. Rita Rudner We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet. Rita Rudner I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose. Rita Rudner Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. Rita Rudner Most turkeys taste better the day after, my mother's tasted better the day before. Rita Rudner A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax. Rita Rudner It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was. Rita Rudner I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them. Rita Rudner They usually have two tellers in my local bank, except when it's very busy, when they have one. Rita Rudner The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him. Rita Rudner Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. Rita Rudner I suffer from peroxide phobia. Every time I've gotten near a blond woman, something of mine has disappeared. Jobs, boyfriends... one time an angora sweater leaped right off my body. Rita Rudner I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling. Rita Rudner If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good. Rita Rudner I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal. Rita Rudner The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. Rita Rudner I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.' Rita Rudner I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it. Rita Rudner There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better. Rita Rudner My Vegas act is how I make my money. Rita Rudner When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third. Rita Rudner My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping. Rita Rudner I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh. Rita Rudner I think the most important thing about learning comedy is to start from who you are. If you begin the process by imitating what you perceive to be a comedy rhythm, you will get laughs sooner, but you will not be unique. Rita Rudner Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act. Rita Rudner Every audience has a personality. Some of them don't have the best personalities, but you're on a date with them for an hour and a half, so you just make the best of it. Rita Rudner I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs. Rita Rudner I have to visualise my jokes, live my jokes, feel the audience because every audience is different. It's like having a different dancing partner every night. Rita Rudner I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy. Rita Rudner If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention. Rita Rudner I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me. Rita Rudner I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. Rita Rudner I have too many credit cards. You know what happened? Someone stole one and I didn't notice. I noticed when I got that bill. Whoa! It was so much less! I'm letting him keep it. I'm saving money! Rita Rudner I did six Broadway shows, and I noticed there weren't many female comedians. When I went to a dancing audition, there were 1,000 girls. And there were three jobs. So I said I'll just try comedy. And I loved it. Rita Rudner I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around. Rita Rudner Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence. Rita Rudner You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it. Rita Rudner I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience. Rita Rudner Barbie ruined my life! It's a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed - because my heels didn't touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What's up with that? I think that it's a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate. Rita Rudner

Reading the Stanton quotes, I must say that in a way we still struggle with with the same problems, if not officially, unofficially. The first Munch quote pretty well explains all of his work. Lilian Smith quote #2 is so right.

Enjoyed the Marlene Dietrich quotes. My Mother was a Marlene fan, she had pretty legs, just like Marlene, and made sure that people knew it

Mortimer Adler Quotes American - Philosopher December 28, 1902 - June 28, 2001 When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. Mortimer Adler Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange. Mortimer Adler Love without conversation is impossible. Mortimer Adler Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. Mortimer Adler If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. Mortimer Adler Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. Mortimer Adler We love even when our love is not requited. Mortimer Adler One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian. Mortimer Adler Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. Mortimer Adler The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. Mortimer Adler We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. Mortimer Adler Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. Mortimer Adler The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. Mortimer Adler Work is toil: what one does only to earn a living. If it gives pleasure, it is leisure. Mortimer Adler In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. Mortimer Adler The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. Mortimer Adler Idling is important. Most people don't know how. They're afraid of it. This explains why they turn on the television set or pick up the newspaper. They think they have to be doing something. Mortimer Adler Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love. Mortimer Adler Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship. Mortimer Adler Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful. Mortimer Adler Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth. Mortimer Adler We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. Mortimer Adler Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. Mortimer Adler An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture. Mortimer Adler It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure. Mortimer Adler The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction. Mortimer Adler There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. Mortimer Adler You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. Mortimer Adler Men value things in three ways: as useful, as pleasant or sources of pleasure, and as excellent, or as intrinsically admirable or honorable. Mortimer Adler Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct. Mortimer Adler Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. Mortimer Adler Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. Mortimer Adler In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. Mortimer Adler I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking the person is the origin of sexual interest, rather than the other way. Mortimer Adler I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give. Mortimer Adler One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union. Mortimer Adler Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. Mortimer Adler Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. Mortimer Adler If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. Mortimer Adler The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. Mortimer Adler Being influential is not the mark of a great book. Mortimer Adler Leisure is not synonymous with time. Nor is it a noun. Leisure is a verb. I leisure. You leisure. Mortimer Adler In idling, the motor's running, but you're letting your mind take in anything. Things pop into it. Those are the gifts of subterranean conscious. Mortimer Adler Sam Levenson Quotes American - Author December 28, 1911 - August 27, 1980 Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. Sam Levenson The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. Sam Levenson Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. Sam Levenson If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. Sam Levenson Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. Sam Levenson If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button. Sam Levenson Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. Sam Levenson You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. Sam Levenson Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children. Sam Levenson It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' Sam Levenson Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. Sam Levenson Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier. Sam Levenson It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. Sam Levenson I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! Sam Levenson The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent. Sam Levenson It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. Sam Levenson When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want? Sam Levenson Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of. Sam Levenson I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? Sam Levenson We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. Sam Levenson One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination. Sam Levenson You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. Sam Levenson Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. Sam Levenson Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. Sam Levenson The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still and waited for the dirt to collect. We kids were carriers. We ran a pickup and delivery service. Sam Levenson