It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Self Catering My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Self Catering
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Self Catering Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 Self Catering
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Self Catering When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Self Catering
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Self Catering Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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 Self Catering
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Self Catering Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Self Catering
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Self Catering The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Self Catering
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Self Catering Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Self Catering
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Self Catering It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Self Catering
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Self Catering Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Self Catering
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Self Catering In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Self Catering
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Self Catering Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Self Catering
