A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Harold's Cross Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Harold's Cross
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 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 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Harold's Cross Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "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) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Harold's Cross
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Harold's Cross If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Harold's Cross
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Harold's Cross A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Harold's Cross
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Harold's Cross "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Harold's Cross
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Harold's Cross "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Harold's Cross
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Harold's Cross "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Harold's Cross
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Harold's Cross Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Harold's Cross
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 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 The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Harold's Cross The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Harold's Cross
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Harold's Cross Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Harold's Cross
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Harold's Cross It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Harold's Cross
