Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Prague Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Prague
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Prague The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Prague
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Prague Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Prague
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Prague Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Prague
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Prague The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Prague
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Prague "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Prague
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Prague 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 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Prague
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Prague The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Prague
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Prague Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Prague
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Prague The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Prague
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Prague The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Prague
