Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) B "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) B
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) B "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) B
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden 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 For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson B "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) B
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) B "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx B
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. B "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin B
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley B It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx B
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey B "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson B
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) B They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland B
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr 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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy B It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud B
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) B I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire B
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki B "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger B
