Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Localities 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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Localities
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Localities Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Localities
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Localities He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Localities "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Localities
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Localities It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Localities
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Localities Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Localities
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "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) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Localities
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Localities I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities
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 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Localities As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Localities
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Localities Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Localities
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Localities Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Localities
