If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken F Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha F
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke F Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart F
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb F Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey F
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez F A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe F
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) F My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril F
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "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 F blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud F
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker F "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde F
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, F What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" F
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) F "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright F
"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) 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 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy F Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch F
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" F Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm F
