I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Tarn-et-Garonne Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Tarn-et-Garonne
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Tarn-et-Garonne The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Tarn-et-Garonne
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tarn-et-Garonne Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Tarn-et-Garonne
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Tarn-et-Garonne "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening 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 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Tarn-et-Garonne
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Tarn-et-Garonne Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Tarn-et-Garonne
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Tarn-et-Garonne blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Tarn-et-Garonne
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Tarn-et-Garonne The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Tarn-et-Garonne
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Tarn-et-Garonne All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Tarn-et-Garonne
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Tarn-et-Garonne In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Tarn-et-Garonne
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Tarn-et-Garonne Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tarn-et-Garonne
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Tarn-et-Garonne "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Tarn-et-Garonne
