"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Localities Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Localities
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Localities The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Localities
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) 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 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Localities In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Localities
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Localities This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Localities
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Localities A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Localities
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Localities Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words 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? "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Localities
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Localities I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Localities
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Localities "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Localities
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Localities We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Localities
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Localities "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Localities
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Localities We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities
