Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Emergency Planning "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Emergency Planning
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "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) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Emergency Planning "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "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 Emergency Planning
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Emergency Planning No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Emergency Planning
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Emergency Planning Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Emergency Planning
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Emergency Planning Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Emergency Planning
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Emergency Planning Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Emergency Planning
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Emergency Planning 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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Emergency Planning
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Emergency Planning "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Emergency Planning
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Emergency Planning All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Emergency Planning
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman 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 If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Emergency Planning I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Emergency Planning
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Emergency Planning There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Emergency Planning
