Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Localities The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Localities
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Localities The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Localities
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Localities When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Localities
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Localities They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Localities
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Localities The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Localities
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire 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 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Localities "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Localities
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Localities My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Localities
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Localities A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Localities
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Localities "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Localities
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Localities Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Localities
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Localities We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Localities
