For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Pozega Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Pozega
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Pozega We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Pozega
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Pozega For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Pozega
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Pozega Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Pozega
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Pozega "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Pozega
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Pozega The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Pozega
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Pozega Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Pozega
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Pozega Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Pozega
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Pozega Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Pozega
"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) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Pozega Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Pozega
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Pozega A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Pozega
