A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Styles "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Styles
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Styles Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Styles
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Styles Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Styles
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Styles I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Styles
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Styles How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Styles
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Styles blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Styles
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Styles "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Styles
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Styles The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Styles
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Styles The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Styles
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "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..." ( A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Styles "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Styles
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries 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 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Styles "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Styles
