The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev 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 Smith O'Brien, William "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Smith O'Brien, William
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Smith O'Brien, William There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Smith O'Brien, William
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Smith O'Brien, William They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Smith O'Brien, William
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Smith O'Brien, William "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Smith O'Brien, William
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Smith O'Brien, William Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Smith O'Brien, William
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Smith O'Brien, William Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Smith O'Brien, William
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Smith O'Brien, William A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Smith O'Brien, William
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Smith O'Brien, William Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Smith O'Brien, William
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Smith O'Brien, William You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Smith O'Brien, William
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Smith O'Brien, William I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Smith O'Brien, William
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Smith O'Brien, William Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Smith O'Brien, William
