Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Essonne The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Essonne
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Essonne "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Essonne
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Essonne If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Essonne
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Essonne The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Essonne
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Essonne Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Essonne
"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) 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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Essonne There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Essonne
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Essonne Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Essonne
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Essonne May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Essonne
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Essonne The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Essonne
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Essonne "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Essonne
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Essonne If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Essonne
