"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) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge By Country of Origin "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen By Country of Origin
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary By Country of Origin "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By Country of Origin
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) By Country of Origin To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Country of Origin
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner By Country of Origin In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 By Country of Origin
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) By Country of Origin Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte By Country of Origin
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show By Country of Origin The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) By Country of Origin
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein By Country of Origin That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") By Country of Origin
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is By Country of Origin My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) By Country of Origin
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers By Country of Origin "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey By Country of Origin
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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.
-- Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller By Country of Origin All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) By Country of Origin
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud By Country of Origin "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston By Country of Origin
