No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Odenthal If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Odenthal
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari 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 a Odenthal 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Odenthal
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Odenthal The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Odenthal
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Odenthal "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Odenthal
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Odenthal I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Odenthal
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Odenthal Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Odenthal
"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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Odenthal The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Odenthal
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Odenthal Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Odenthal
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Odenthal Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Odenthal
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Odenthal There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Odenthal
"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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "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) Odenthal One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Odenthal
