The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) R No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates R
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov R Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle R
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 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W R "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James R
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler R God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe R
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words R Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 R
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves R Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) R
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game R Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert R
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch R We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln R
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken R 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 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns R
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H R Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung R
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha R Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer R
