Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Design I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Design
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Design Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Design
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "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 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Design Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Design
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Design "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Design
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Design It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Design
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Design Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Design
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Design Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Design
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Design "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Design
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Design "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Design
"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) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Design "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Design
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Design Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Design
