True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Molve Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Molve
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Molve Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Molve
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Molve 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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Molve
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Molve Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Molve
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Molve "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Molve
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Molve "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Molve
"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) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Molve I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Molve
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Molve "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Molve
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Molve Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous 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. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Molve
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Molve "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Molve
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Molve The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Molve
