Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Home and Garden "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Home and Garden
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Home and Garden Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Home and Garden
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous 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 Home and Garden "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Home and Garden
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Home and Garden Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Home and Garden
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Home and Garden Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Home and Garden
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon 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 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Home and Garden A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Home and Garden
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Home and Garden "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Home and Garden
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Home and Garden Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Home and Garden
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Home and Garden "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Home and Garden
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Home and Garden "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Home and Garden
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Home and Garden What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Home and Garden
