Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Property "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Property
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Property "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Property
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Property "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Property
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Property Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Property
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Property Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau 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 Property
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Property My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise 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 Property
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "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) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Property Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Property
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Property I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Property
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Property If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Property
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Property An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Property
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Property Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Property
