The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Angling "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Angling
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Angling "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Angling
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Angling Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Angling
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Angling The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Angling
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Angling "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Angling
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Angling "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 whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Angling
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Angling 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 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Angling
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Angling 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Angling
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Angling When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Angling
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Angling All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Angling
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Angling Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Angling
