Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Directories I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Directories
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Directories Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Directories
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Directories "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Directories
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Directories Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Directories
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Directories Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Directories
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Directories You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. 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 Directories
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Directories The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Directories
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Directories Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous My other wife is beautiful. Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Directories
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 Directories "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Directories
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Directories "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Directories
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Directories When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Directories
