We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Eure-et-Loir I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Eure-et-Loir
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Eure-et-Loir "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Eure-et-Loir
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) 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 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Eure-et-Loir blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Eure-et-Loir
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Eure-et-Loir You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C 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 Eure-et-Loir
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? There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Eure-et-Loir When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. 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 Eure-et-Loir
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Eure-et-Loir "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Eure-et-Loir
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Eure-et-Loir "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Eure-et-Loir
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Eure-et-Loir In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Eure-et-Loir
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Eure-et-Loir "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Eure-et-Loir
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Eure-et-Loir 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 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Eure-et-Loir
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Eure-et-Loir 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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Eure-et-Loir
