Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz 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 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Food Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Food
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Food There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Food
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Food The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Food
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Food 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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Food
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Food There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Food
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Food Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Food
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Food I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Food
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Food When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Food
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Food No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Food
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Food It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Food
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Food For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Food
