Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Eresing He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Eresing
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Eresing Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Eresing
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Eresing Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Eresing
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Eresing "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) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Eresing
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Eresing "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Eresing
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Eresing We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Eresing
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Eresing All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Eresing
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Eresing "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Eresing
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Eresing I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Eresing
"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) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Eresing Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Eresing
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Eresing If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Eresing
