Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau W Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall W
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers What's new? Most of my wife. W The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) W
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Think off-center." (George Carlin) W Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol W
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise W Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom W
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 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 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson W "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) W
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) W Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley W
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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) W "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All W
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper W "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato W
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner W Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) W
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis W Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo W
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "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) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd W Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov W
