"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Real Estate Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Real Estate
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Real Estate In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Real Estate
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Real Estate "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Real Estate
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 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Real Estate For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Real Estate
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Real Estate Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Real Estate
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Real Estate "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Real Estate
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Real Estate "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Real Estate
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Real Estate We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Real Estate
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Real Estate I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Real Estate
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Real Estate Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Real Estate
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Real Estate "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Real Estate
