Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Fier A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Fier
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Fier Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fier
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Fier "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Fier
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Fier "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Fier
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Fier The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Fier
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Fier We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Fier
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Fier Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Fier
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Fier America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Fier
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Fier Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Fier
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Fier It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Fier
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fier To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fier
