We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Flowers and Gifts The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Flowers and Gifts
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Flowers and Gifts "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Flowers and Gifts
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "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 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Flowers and Gifts If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Flowers and Gifts
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Flowers and Gifts The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Flowers and Gifts
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Flowers and Gifts I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Flowers and Gifts
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Flowers and Gifts Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Flowers and Gifts
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "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 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Flowers and Gifts The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Flowers and Gifts
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Flowers and Gifts Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Flowers and Gifts
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "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) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Flowers and Gifts Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Flowers and Gifts
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Flowers and Gifts "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Flowers and Gifts
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Flowers and Gifts Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Flowers and Gifts
