I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Real Estate Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Real Estate
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Real Estate "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Real Estate
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Real Estate A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Real Estate
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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Real Estate Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Real Estate
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Real Estate "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Real Estate
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Real Estate An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Real Estate
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Real Estate Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Real Estate
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Real Estate "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Real Estate
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Real Estate "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) My other wife is beautiful. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Real Estate
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Real Estate Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Real Estate
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Real Estate What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Real Estate
