Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Dordogne When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Dordogne
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Dordogne 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 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Dordogne
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Dordogne Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Dordogne
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Dordogne 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. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Dordogne
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Dordogne "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Dordogne
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Dordogne If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Dordogne
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Dordogne blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Dordogne
"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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) 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 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Dordogne "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Dordogne
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Dordogne We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Dordogne
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Dordogne Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Dordogne
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Dordogne "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Dordogne
