Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues O Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill O
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra O Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) O
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken O "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison O
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor O In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi O
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live O With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru O
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire O Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith O
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus O Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 O
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 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) O If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) O
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils O "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) O
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "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) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler O "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung O
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 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) O "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw O
