"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Hauts-de-Seine "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) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Hauts-de-Seine
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Hauts-de-Seine At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Hauts-de-Seine
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "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) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Hauts-de-Seine A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Hauts-de-Seine
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) 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 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hauts-de-Seine I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Hauts-de-Seine
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hauts-de-Seine Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Hauts-de-Seine
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Hauts-de-Seine What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Hauts-de-Seine
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Hauts-de-Seine "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Hauts-de-Seine
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Hauts-de-Seine The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Hauts-de-Seine
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Hauts-de-Seine It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Hauts-de-Seine
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha 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 Hauts-de-Seine If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Hauts-de-Seine
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Hauts-de-Seine It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Hauts-de-Seine
