"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Soini Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Soini
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Soini "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Soini
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, 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 Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Soini Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Soini
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Soini When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Soini
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Soini A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Soini
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Soini May you never leave your marriage alive. "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 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Soini
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Soini "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Soini
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Soini My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Soini
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Soini There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Soini
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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Soini If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Soini
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Soini Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous 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 Soini
