"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Regions "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Regions
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Regions "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Regions
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "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) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Regions "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Regions
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 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "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 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Regions Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Regions
"... 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) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Regions "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) "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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Regions
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Regions The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Regions
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Regions It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Regions
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "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) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Regions If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Regions
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Regions "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Regions
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "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) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Regions If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Regions
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Regions He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Regions
