We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves A
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein A "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro 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 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the A "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx A
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous A Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett A
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting 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 A "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes A
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 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 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 a Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd A "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I A
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) A
