We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner P Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller P
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux P "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) P
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW 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 Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz P I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender P
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger P It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. P
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman P If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl P
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 P He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper P
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner P Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. 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 "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) P
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali 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 Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 P Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) P
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) P One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes P
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "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) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) P blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn P
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire P "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) P
