Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Dance Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Dance
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Dance 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 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dance
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Dance Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Dance
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Dance "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Dance
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Dance Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Dance
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Dance Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Dance
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Dance If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Dance
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 Dance Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Dance
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Dance Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Dance
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Dance If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Dance
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Dance Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Dance
