Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Orasac Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Orasac
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Orasac Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Orasac
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Orasac A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Orasac
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Orasac "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Orasac
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Orasac Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Orasac
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Orasac Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Orasac
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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 Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Orasac Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Orasac
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Orasac Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings 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 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Orasac
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Orasac Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Orasac
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Orasac "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Orasac
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Orasac May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Orasac
