"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Real Estate Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Real Estate
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Real Estate "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Real Estate
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Real Estate Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Real Estate
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Real Estate The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Real Estate
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Real Estate If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Real Estate
... 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
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Real Estate A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Real Estate
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Real Estate He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Real Estate
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Real Estate "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Real Estate
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Real Estate Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Real Estate
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Real Estate "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Real Estate
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Real Estate "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) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Real Estate
