Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Gironde "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Gironde
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Gironde I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Gironde
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Gironde Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Gironde
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Gironde True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Gironde
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Gironde The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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. Gironde
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Gironde 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 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Gironde
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Gironde If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Gironde
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Gironde "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Gironde
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Gironde "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Gironde
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Gironde Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Gironde
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Gironde "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Gironde
