For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Bodenmais An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Bodenmais
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Bodenmais It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Bodenmais
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Bodenmais 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. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Bodenmais
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Bodenmais Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Bodenmais
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Bodenmais "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Bodenmais
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Bodenmais The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Bodenmais
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Man and wife make one fool. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Bodenmais 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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Bodenmais
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "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) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Bodenmais "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Bodenmais
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Bodenmais 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 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Bodenmais
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Bodenmais I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Bodenmais
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Bodenmais ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Bodenmais
