Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Loiret "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Loiret
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Loiret "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Loiret
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Loiret Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Loiret
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Loiret Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Loiret
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Loiret Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Loiret
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 Loiret Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Loiret
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man and wife make one fool. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Loiret "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Loiret
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Loiret "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Loiret
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Loiret Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Loiret
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Loiret "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Loiret
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Loiret Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Loiret
