You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Dance He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Dance
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Dance If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Dance
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Dance Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Dance
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Dance "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Dance
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Dance Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Dance
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Dance "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Dance
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 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 Dance Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Dance
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Dance Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Dance
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Dance He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Dance
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Dance The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Dance
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Dance A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Dance
