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 "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Real Estate Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Real Estate
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. 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 Real Estate "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Real Estate
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "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) Real Estate Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Real Estate
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Real Estate He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Real Estate
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "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) Real Estate "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Real Estate
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Real Estate There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Real Estate
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Real Estate Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Real Estate
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Real Estate "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Real Estate
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "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) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Real Estate Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Real Estate
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Real Estate "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Real Estate
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Real Estate I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Real Estate
