To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Localities Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Localities
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Localities The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Localities
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Localities
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Localities I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities
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) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Localities Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Localities
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Localities Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Localities "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Localities
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Localities Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Localities
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Localities
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Localities Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Localities
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Localities All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Localities
