The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Equestrian For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Equestrian
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Equestrian I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Equestrian
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Equestrian "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Equestrian
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Equestrian "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Equestrian
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Equestrian Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Equestrian
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Equestrian Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe 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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Equestrian
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Equestrian You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Equestrian
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Equestrian Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Equestrian
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Equestrian "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Equestrian
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) 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 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Equestrian Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Equestrian
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Equestrian Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Equestrian
