"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Home and Garden Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Home and Garden
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Home and Garden Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Home and Garden
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Home and Garden Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Home and Garden
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Home and Garden The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Home and Garden
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Home and Garden Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Home and Garden
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Home and Garden The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Home and Garden
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Home and Garden Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Home and Garden
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Home and Garden Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Home and Garden
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Home and Garden "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Home and Garden
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Home and Garden Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Home and Garden
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "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's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Home and Garden Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Home and Garden
