Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright 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 Opera Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Opera
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Opera Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Opera
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Opera "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opera 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 A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Opera
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Opera You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Opera
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Opera Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Opera
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Opera A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Opera
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "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) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opera "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) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Opera
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Opera When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Opera
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Opera It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opera A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Opera
