Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Localities "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Localities
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Localities Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 Localities
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Localities The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Localities
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Localities Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Localities
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Localities The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Localities
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Localities Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Localities
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 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 Localities The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Localities
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Localities Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Localities
"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) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Localities "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Localities
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Localities Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Localities
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Localities
