"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) What's new? Most of my wife. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) S A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken S
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig S The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes S
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) S He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) S
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi S Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin S
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) S "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. S
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch S "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) S
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz S The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn S
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha S Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon S
"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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx S "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and S
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun S Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di S
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi S The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain S
