Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha H Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason H
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe H Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard H
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) H In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) H
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) H Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words H
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield H America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) H
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) H "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man H
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "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.) H Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer H
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. H A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti H
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "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) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) H I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante H
"... 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) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi 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 can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud H Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All H
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) H He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken H
