There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Accessories Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Accessories
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 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Accessories "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Accessories
"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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Accessories Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Accessories
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Accessories "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Accessories
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Accessories In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Accessories
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Accessories The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Accessories
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Accessories "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Accessories
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Accessories 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 "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Accessories
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "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 Accessories I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Accessories
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Accessories Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Accessories
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Accessories A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Accessories
