"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Monasteraden If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Monasteraden
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Monasteraden Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Monasteraden
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Monasteraden How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Monasteraden
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna 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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Monasteraden I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Monasteraden
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Monasteraden Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Monasteraden
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Monasteraden "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Monasteraden
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Monasteraden 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 The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Monasteraden
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Monasteraden "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Monasteraden
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Monasteraden My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Monasteraden
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Monasteraden Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Monasteraden
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Monasteraden Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Monasteraden
