My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Traditional and Ethnic I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Traditional and Ethnic
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Traditional and Ethnic "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Traditional and Ethnic
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Traditional and Ethnic Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Traditional and Ethnic
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Traditional and Ethnic You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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. Traditional and Ethnic
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Traditional and Ethnic The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Traditional and Ethnic
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Traditional and Ethnic "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Traditional and Ethnic
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "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, ignorance, g Traditional and Ethnic A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Traditional and Ethnic
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Traditional and Ethnic "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Traditional and Ethnic
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Traditional and Ethnic Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Traditional and Ethnic
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Traditional and Ethnic We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Traditional and Ethnic
"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) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Traditional and Ethnic "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Traditional and Ethnic
