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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Localities "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Localities
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown 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 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Localities He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Localities
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Localities Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Localities
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Localities Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Localities
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Localities Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Localities
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Localities They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Localities
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Localities Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Localities
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Localities "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Localities
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Localities A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Localities
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen 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 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Localities We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Localities
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Localities Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Localities
