One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) R Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o R
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer R Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly R
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X R Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) R
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) R I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words R
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) R The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge R
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi R What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all R
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 R A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson R
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 R "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson R
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. R The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) R
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx R May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill R
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt R A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold R
