The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Flowers and Gifts Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Flowers and Gifts
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Flowers and Gifts "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Flowers and Gifts
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Flowers and Gifts Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Flowers and Gifts
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Flowers and Gifts "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Flowers and Gifts
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Flowers and Gifts If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen 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 Flowers and Gifts
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Flowers and Gifts A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Flowers and Gifts
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Flowers and Gifts The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Flowers and Gifts
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Flowers and Gifts If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Flowers and Gifts
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Flowers and Gifts "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Flowers and Gifts
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 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 Flowers and Gifts Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Flowers and Gifts
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Flowers and Gifts They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Flowers and Gifts
