This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley X Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain X
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) X 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
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong X
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy X Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics X
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "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) X What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi X
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "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) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt X The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi X
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston X "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team X
"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 only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov 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 X Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson X
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words X Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "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) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) X
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 "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker X We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) X
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx X There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. X
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau X Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly X
