Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "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) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr St. Goar "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) St. Goar
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 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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 "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) St. Goar When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 St. Goar
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) St. Goar The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein St. Goar
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 St. Goar The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown St. Goar
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw St. Goar Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein St. Goar
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus St. Goar It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous St. Goar
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov St. Goar Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) St. Goar
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous St. Goar Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife St. Goar
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. St. Goar "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel St. Goar
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes St. Goar The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand St. Goar
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) St. Goar "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort St. Goar
