We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Cavan "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Cavan
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cavan The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cavan
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Cavan Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Cavan
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Cavan All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Cavan
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Cavan Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Cavan
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Cavan If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Cavan
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Cavan I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Cavan
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will 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 Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Cavan The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Cavan
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Cavan I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Cavan
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Cavan "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Cavan
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Cavan Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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