Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Haute-Marne Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Haute-Marne
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Haute-Marne "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Haute-Marne
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) 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 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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Haute-Marne We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Haute-Marne
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Haute-Marne We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Haute-Marne
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Haute-Marne An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Haute-Marne
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Haute-Marne Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Haute-Marne
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Haute-Marne "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Haute-Marne
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Haute-Marne Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Haute-Marne
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Haute-Marne Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Haute-Marne
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Haute-Marne Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Haute-Marne
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Haute-Marne The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Haute-Marne
