He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West M 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 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais M
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. M Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin M
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell M Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson What's new? Most of my wife. M
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) M My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman M
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) M Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte M
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) M "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake M
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Man and wife make one fool. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) M Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) M
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Man and wife make one fool. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein M The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein M
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola M What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous M
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) M All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero M
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "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 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde M Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. M
