An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde F "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric F
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) F He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) F
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 F "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung F
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) F What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham F
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point F Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) F
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer 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 The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James F As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short F
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller F "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) F
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black F When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake F
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley F I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins F
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly F It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed F
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman F "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest F
