Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick 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 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Fedamore The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Fedamore
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fedamore "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Fedamore
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Fedamore If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Fedamore
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Fedamore Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Fedamore
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Fedamore There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Fedamore
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Fedamore We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Fedamore
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Fedamore "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Fedamore
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Fedamore "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Fedamore
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Fedamore The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Fedamore
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Fedamore If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude 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 Fedamore
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fedamore I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Fedamore
