Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard K "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio K
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith K Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) K
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac K Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano K
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon 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 One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler K "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. K
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher K If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel 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 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw K
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) K The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson K
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper K In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show K
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain K "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein K
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I K Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) K
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle K If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) K
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde K What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein K
