A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Localities "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Localities
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Localities Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "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) Localities
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Localities You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Man and wife make one fool. Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Localities There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Localities
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Localities Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Localities
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Localities The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Localities
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Localities "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Localities
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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Localities But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Localities
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Localities "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Localities
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Localities If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Localities
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Localities Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Localities
