The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Marriage is a rest period between romances. Localities No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Localities
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Localities Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Localities
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Localities Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Localities
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Localities May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Localities
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Localities Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Localities
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Localities We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Localities
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Localities "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Localities
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Localities "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Localities
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Localities If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Localities
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Localities Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Localities
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Localities "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Localities
