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 As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Dance It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Dance
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "'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, Through the Looking Glass) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Dance I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Dance
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 Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Dance There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Dance
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Dance Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) 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 Dance
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Dance Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Dance
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Dance Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Dance
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Dance It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Dance
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Dance Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) 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 Dance
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Dance Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Dance
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Dance The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Dance
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Dance "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Dance
