A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Morbihan We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Morbihan
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 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Morbihan Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Morbihan
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Morbihan "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Morbihan
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley 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 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Morbihan blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Morbihan
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Morbihan I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Morbihan
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Morbihan Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Morbihan
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Morbihan Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Morbihan
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Morbihan Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Morbihan
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Morbihan "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Morbihan
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Morbihan One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Morbihan
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Morbihan Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Morbihan
