Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Minskaya Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Minskaya
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Minskaya "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Minskaya
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Minskaya "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Minskaya
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Minskaya Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Minskaya
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "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 it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Minskaya Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Minskaya
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Minskaya 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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Minskaya
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Minskaya "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Minskaya
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Minskaya In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Minskaya
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Minskaya Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Minskaya
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Minskaya Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Minskaya
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Minskaya "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Minskaya
