I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) By Region "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 When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) By Region
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton By Region In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn By Region blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun By Region
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner By Region Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous By Region
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand By Region I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) By Region
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings By Region I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t By Region
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw By Region Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The By Region
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through By Region Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) By Region
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. By Region Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon >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 By Region
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres By Region Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves By Region
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Region The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) By Region
