Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Breha The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Breha
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Breha "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Breha
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Breha A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Breha
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "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) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 Breha They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Breha
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Breha The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Breha
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Breha Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Breha
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Breha A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Breha
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Breha Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Breha
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Breha "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) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Breha
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Breha "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Breha
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Breha Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Breha
