Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Pets No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Pets
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "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) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Pets It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Pets
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pets "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Pets
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Pets Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Pets
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Pets Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Pets
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Pets Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Pets
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Pets More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi 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 Pets
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Pets Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Pets
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Pets When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Pets
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Pets The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Pets
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Pets Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Pets
