For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Localities "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Localities Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Localities
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Localities Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Localities
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson 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. Localities Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Localities
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Localities A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Localities
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Localities Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Localities
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Localities "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Localities When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Localities
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Localities Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Localities
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Localities The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Localities
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Localities The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Localities
