If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Boppard "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Boppard
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Boppard Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Boppard
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Boppard The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Boppard
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Boppard A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Boppard
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Boppard Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Boppard
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Boppard By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Boppard
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a rest period between romances. To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Boppard The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Boppard
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon 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 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Boppard They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Boppard
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Boppard "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Boppard
"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 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Boppard In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Boppard
"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) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Boppard An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boppard
