Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Localities "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Localities
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Localities Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Localities
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Localities It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Localities
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Localities "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Localities
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Localities The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Localities
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Localities "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Localities
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Localities The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Localities
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Localities If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Localities
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Localities Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Localities
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Localities Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Localities
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills 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 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Localities Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Localities
