For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Loviisa Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Loviisa
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Loviisa "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Loviisa
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Loviisa Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Loviisa
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Loviisa Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Loviisa
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Loviisa "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Loviisa
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Loviisa In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Loviisa
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Loviisa The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Loviisa
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Loviisa We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Loviisa
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb 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 Loviisa Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Loviisa
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Loviisa "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) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Loviisa
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Loviisa By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Loviisa
