"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Thesprotia 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Thesprotia
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Thesprotia "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Thesprotia
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Thesprotia "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Thesprotia
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Thesprotia When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Thesprotia
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Thesprotia Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Thesprotia
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Thesprotia Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Thesprotia
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Thesprotia Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Thesprotia
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Thesprotia Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Thesprotia
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Thesprotia "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Thesprotia
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Thesprotia "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Thesprotia
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Thesprotia I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Thesprotia
