"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) 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 Speyer You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Speyer
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Speyer I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Speyer
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Speyer If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Speyer
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Speyer Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Speyer
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Speyer "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Speyer
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Speyer "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Speyer
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Speyer A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Speyer
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Speyer "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Speyer
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Speyer We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Speyer
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 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.
Speyer Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Speyer
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Speyer The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Speyer
