"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Running Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Running
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Running A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Running
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Running I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Running
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Running It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Running
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "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) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Running Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Running
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Running I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Running
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Running Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Running
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Running Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Running
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Running Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Running
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Running All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Running
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Running Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Running
