Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Regions Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Regions
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Regions Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Regions
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Regions A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Regions
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Regions "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Regions
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Regions In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Regions
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) 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 Regions It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Regions
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Regions For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Regions
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Regions "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Regions
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Regions In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Regions
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Regions "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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Regions
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 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.
-- Crow Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Regions The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "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) Regions
