In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Localities "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Localities
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Localities "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 Localities
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Localities Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Localities
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Localities "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Localities
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Localities "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Localities
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Localities If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Localities
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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Localities It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Localities
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Localities Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Localities There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Localities
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Localities "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Localities
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Localities "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Localities
