Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh History A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green History
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens 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. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley 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 History Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields History
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach History Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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" Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld History
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau History "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "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) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor History
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach History I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale 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 History
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford History There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers History
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol History "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau History
"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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa History As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken History
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun History Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu History
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) History Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal History
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop History A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller History
