He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) S Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken S
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou S Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer S
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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 Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a S "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen S
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci S If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) S
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "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 Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous S "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda S
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner S I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) S
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) S "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt S
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett S If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic S
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) S Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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, "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) S
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans S Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) S
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O S The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! S
