He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Louvre "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Louvre
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Louvre "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Louvre
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Louvre "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Louvre
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Louvre Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Louvre
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Louvre You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Louvre
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Louvre Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Louvre
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Louvre Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Louvre
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Louvre A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Louvre
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Louvre Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Louvre
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Louvre 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 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Louvre
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Louvre Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Louvre
