"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) O If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "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 O
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson O "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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley O
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha 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 O If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) O
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "... 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) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history O Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele O
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress O It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams O
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) O "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev O
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) O Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) O
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) O "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw O
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) O Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. O
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce O Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte O
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And O The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire O
