"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Symi "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Symi
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Symi 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 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Symi
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Symi The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "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) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Symi
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Symi The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Symi
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Symi He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Symi
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Symi I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Symi
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 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Symi Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Symi
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Symi It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Symi
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Symi A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Symi
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Symi It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Symi
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Symi Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Symi
