The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Alpignano It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Alpignano
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Alpignano The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Alpignano
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Alpignano There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Alpignano
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Alpignano A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Alpignano
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Alpignano Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Alpignano
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Alpignano "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Alpignano
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 Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Alpignano That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Alpignano
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Alpignano Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Alpignano
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Alpignano 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 Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Alpignano
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Alpignano "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Alpignano
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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Alpignano I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Alpignano
