Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Women "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Women
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Women 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 When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Women
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Women
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Women In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Women
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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Women The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Women
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Women
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 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Women Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Women
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Women Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) 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 Women
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Women I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Women
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Women A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Women
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Women I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Women
