A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) History "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) History
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin 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 would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) History "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln History
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara History Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke History
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl History Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain History
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. History "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous History Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje History
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James History It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert History
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln History It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. History
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign History Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) History
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung History It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill History
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "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 I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board History The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley History
