Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Regions Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Regions
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Regions 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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Regions
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Regions The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Regions
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous 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 Regions If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Regions
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Regions The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Regions
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Regions Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Regions
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Regions If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Regions
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President 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 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Regions Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Regions
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Regions I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Regions
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "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) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Regions Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "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) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Regions
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Regions Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Regions
