Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Caherdaniel Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Caherdaniel
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs 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 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Caherdaniel I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Caherdaniel
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Caherdaniel "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Caherdaniel
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Caherdaniel "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Caherdaniel
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Caherdaniel "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Caherdaniel
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Caherdaniel One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Caherdaniel
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "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) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Caherdaniel "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k 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 a Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Caherdaniel
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Caherdaniel 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Caherdaniel
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Caherdaniel "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Caherdaniel
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde What's new? Most of my wife. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Caherdaniel I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Caherdaniel
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Caherdaniel "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Caherdaniel
