There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Localities Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Localities 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Localities
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Localities
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Localities Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Localities
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Localities "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Localities
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Localities Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Localities
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Localities The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Localities
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Localities The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Localities
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Localities "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "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) Localities
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Localities In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Localities
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Localities Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Localities
