When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi U "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville U
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. U "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) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) U
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) U Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford U
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt U "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne U
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) U 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 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw U In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker U
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod U UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester U
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) U People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce U
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) U Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "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) U
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. U "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) 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 U
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther U "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) U
