"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Localities It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Localities
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Localities Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Localities
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Localities "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Localities
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Localities Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Localities
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Localities Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Localities
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Localities Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Localities
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Localities "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Localities
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Localities "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Localities Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Localities
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Localities Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Localities
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Localities Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Localities
