"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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, Wallonia The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Wallonia
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Wallonia A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost 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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Wallonia
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Wallonia There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wallonia
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Wallonia Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Wallonia
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Wallonia The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Wallonia
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Wallonia "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Wallonia
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Wallonia The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Wallonia
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Wallonia The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Wallonia
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wallonia I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wallonia
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Wallonia Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Wallonia
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short 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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Wallonia "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Wallonia
