Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. A "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, A
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) A "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch A
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra A Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac 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 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle 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" A
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan A A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince A
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it A "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen A
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle A Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "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) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) A Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge A
