The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Pasman Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Pasman
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 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills 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.
-- Anonymous Pasman If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Pasman
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Pasman "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Pasman
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Pasman Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Pasman
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx 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 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Pasman Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pasman
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Pasman "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Pasman
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Pasman We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Pasman
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Pasman "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Pasman
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Pasman Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Pasman
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Pasman History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Pasman
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Pasman A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pasman
