By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Property A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Property
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Property A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Property
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Property CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Property
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "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) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Property A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Property
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Property Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Property
"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) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Property We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Property
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Property "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Property
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Property We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Property
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Property Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Property
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Property Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Property
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Property My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Property
