Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations P Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) P
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus P In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) P
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson P Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain P
"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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa P "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 P
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker P Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas P
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review P 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 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) P
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human P Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries P
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw P Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy P
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein P Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) P
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous P It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and P
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous P The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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 P
