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I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Dalkey Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Dalkey
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Dalkey "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Dalkey
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Dalkey I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Dalkey
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Dalkey The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Dalkey
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Dalkey Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dalkey
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Dalkey "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Dalkey
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Dalkey "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Dalkey
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Dalkey "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Dalkey
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Dalkey There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Dalkey
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Dalkey I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Dalkey
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Dalkey "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Dalkey
