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 Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Judo Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Judo
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Judo It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Judo
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Judo Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Judo
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Judo Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Judo
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux 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 The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Judo Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Judo
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Judo Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Judo
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Judo Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "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 Judo
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Judo "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Judo
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Judo There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Judo
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko May you never leave your marriage alive. Judo We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Judo
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Judo If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Judo
