It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Lipsi A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lipsi
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Lipsi "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Lipsi
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Lipsi Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lipsi
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Lipsi If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Lipsi
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lipsi Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Lipsi
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Lipsi I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lipsi
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Lipsi And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Lipsi
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Lipsi In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Lipsi
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Lipsi Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Lipsi
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Lipsi "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Lipsi
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Lipsi I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Lipsi
