Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Genealogy Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Genealogy
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Genealogy I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Genealogy Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Genealogy
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Genealogy The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Genealogy
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Genealogy We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Genealogy
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Genealogy Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Genealogy
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Genealogy If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Genealogy
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Genealogy Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Genealogy
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Genealogy For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Genealogy
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Genealogy How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Genealogy
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Genealogy The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Genealogy
