I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman South Ostrobothnia 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 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal South Ostrobothnia
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from South Ostrobothnia I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst South Ostrobothnia
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) South Ostrobothnia The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa South Ostrobothnia
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. South Ostrobothnia 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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht South Ostrobothnia
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. South Ostrobothnia What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story South Ostrobothnia
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie South Ostrobothnia >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "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) South Ostrobothnia
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich South Ostrobothnia By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain South Ostrobothnia
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa South Ostrobothnia 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 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey South Ostrobothnia
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper 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 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 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy South Ostrobothnia "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) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill South Ostrobothnia
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) South Ostrobothnia "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein South Ostrobothnia
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost South Ostrobothnia My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde South Ostrobothnia
