"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Parnell, Charles Stewart What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Parnell, Charles Stewart
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Parnell, Charles Stewart One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Parnell, Charles Stewart
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Parnell, Charles Stewart May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Parnell, Charles Stewart
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Parnell, Charles Stewart "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 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Parnell, Charles Stewart
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Parnell, Charles Stewart Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Parnell, Charles Stewart
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Parnell, Charles Stewart The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Parnell, Charles Stewart
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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parnell, Charles Stewart Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Parnell, Charles Stewart
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Parnell, Charles Stewart I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Parnell, Charles Stewart
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Parnell, Charles Stewart Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parnell, Charles Stewart
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Parnell, Charles Stewart I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words 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 "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Parnell, Charles Stewart
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Parnell, Charles Stewart 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 Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Parnell, Charles Stewart
