Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Val-de-Marne When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Val-de-Marne
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Val-de-Marne I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Val-de-Marne
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Val-de-Marne "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Val-de-Marne
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Val-de-Marne Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is a rest period between romances. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Val-de-Marne
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Val-de-Marne There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Val-de-Marne
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 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 Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Val-de-Marne I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Val-de-Marne
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Val-de-Marne Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Val-de-Marne
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Val-de-Marne "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "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) Val-de-Marne
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Val-de-Marne Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Val-de-Marne
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Val-de-Marne "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 Val-de-Marne
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Val-de-Marne Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Val-de-Marne
