The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Ordino Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Ordino
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Ordino "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ordino
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Ordino Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Ordino
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Ordino "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Ordino
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Ordino Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Ordino
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Ordino >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Ordino
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Ordino Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Ordino
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Ordino Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Ordino
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Ordino "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Ordino
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Ordino Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Ordino
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Ordino All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Ordino
