How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils 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, Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Martial Arts I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Martial Arts
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Martial Arts 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 If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Martial Arts
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Martial Arts The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Martial Arts
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Martial Arts Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Martial Arts
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Martial Arts "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Martial Arts
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Martial Arts Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Martial Arts
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Martial Arts Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Martial Arts
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Martial Arts 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 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Martial Arts
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Martial Arts "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Martial Arts
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Martial Arts Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Martial Arts
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Martial Arts "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Martial Arts
