There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Fencing Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Fencing
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Fencing Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Fencing
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Fencing It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fencing
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Fencing If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fencing
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Fencing "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fencing
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Fencing "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Fencing
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Fencing Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Fencing
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Fencing If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fencing
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Fencing Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Fencing
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Fencing Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Fencing
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Fencing The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Fencing
