The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "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 H Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda H
"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 The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "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 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 H Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo H
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) H Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J H
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire H I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) H
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev H Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V H
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb H If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) H
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) H "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams 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 H
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken H All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) 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. H
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus H "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce H
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) H Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. H
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor H Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein H
