Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Territories To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Territories
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Territories "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Territories
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Territories "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Territories
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Territories If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Territories
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Territories Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Territories
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Territories I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Territories
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Territories The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Territories
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Territories The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "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) Territories
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Territories "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Territories
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Territories The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Territories
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Territories Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Territories
