Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Self-Catering I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Self-Catering
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Self-Catering Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Self-Catering
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Self-Catering I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Self-Catering
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "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) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Self-Catering The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Self-Catering
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Self-Catering To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Self-Catering
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Self-Catering As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Self-Catering
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Self-Catering You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Self-Catering
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Self-Catering The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Self-Catering
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White 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 Self-Catering How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Self-Catering
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "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) Self-Catering Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Self-Catering
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Self-Catering Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Self-Catering
