When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Glandore I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Glandore
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Glandore We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "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) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Glandore
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Glandore "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Glandore
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Glandore Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Glandore
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Glandore 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 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Glandore
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin 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 Glandore "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Glandore
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Glandore Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Glandore
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Glandore 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 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Glandore
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Glandore A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Glandore
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Glandore I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Man and wife make one fool. Glandore
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Glandore "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Glandore
