"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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' Glenealy A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Glenealy
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Glenealy Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Glenealy
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Glenealy For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Glenealy
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Glenealy Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Glenealy
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "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) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Glenealy "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Glenealy
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Glenealy Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Glenealy
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Glenealy Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Glenealy
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Glenealy One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Glenealy
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Glenealy Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Glenealy
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Glenealy One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "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) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Glenealy
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Glenealy "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Glenealy
