He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe K Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous K
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley K America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph K
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw K "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi K
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) K "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein K
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach K "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) K
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) K You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) K
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder K Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O K
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes K "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) K
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure K "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein K
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud K The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "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) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams K
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words K "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) K
