"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Alpes-de-Haute-Provence 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 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Alpes-de-Haute-Provence "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) My other wife is beautiful. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Alpes-de-Haute-Provence What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Alpes-de-Haute-Provence "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Alpes-de-Haute-Provence "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Alpes-de-Haute-Provence I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Alpes-de-Haute-Provence The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
