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Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Gorey There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Gorey
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Gorey A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Gorey
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Gorey "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Gorey
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Gorey Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous 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 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Gorey
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Gorey Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gorey
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Gorey There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Gorey
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Gorey The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Gorey
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Gorey 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 Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Gorey
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "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) Gorey If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Gorey
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Gorey Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Gorey
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Gorey Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Gorey
