Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Counties The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Counties Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Counties
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 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 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 Counties "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Counties
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Counties Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Counties
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Counties "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Counties
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Counties Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Counties
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "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) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Counties "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Counties
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Counties As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Counties
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Counties Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Counties
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Counties "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Counties
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Counties It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Counties
