If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Cork Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Cork
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Cork May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Cork
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Cork "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Cork
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Cork May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Cork
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 Cork Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Cork
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Cork Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Cork
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Cork Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Cork
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Cork To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Cork
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Cork We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Cork
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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 Cork Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Cork
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Cork Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Cork
