...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Breeders "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Breeders
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Breeders The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Breeders
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Breeders Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Breeders
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Breeders The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Breeders
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Breeders A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Breeders
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Breeders I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Breeders
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Breeders Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Breeders
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Breeders The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Breeders
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Breeders For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Breeders
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Breeders Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 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 Breeders
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Breeders Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Breeders
