During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "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) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin G The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) G
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "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) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. G If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) G
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle G Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) G
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what 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 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler G "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley G
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley G We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe G
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) G Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) G
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison G No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold G
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) G Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson G
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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? Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd G Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux G
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck 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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) G I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra G
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince G Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) G
