"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Horbruch He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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 Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Horbruch
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Horbruch 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 My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Horbruch
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "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) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Horbruch "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Horbruch
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Horbruch If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Horbruch
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Horbruch Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Horbruch
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Horbruch Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Horbruch
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Horbruch The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Horbruch
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Horbruch A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Horbruch
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Horbruch "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Horbruch
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Horbruch Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Horbruch
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Horbruch Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Horbruch
