Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Cuneo In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Cuneo
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman 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 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 Cuneo Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Cuneo
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Cuneo A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Cuneo
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Cuneo The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Cuneo
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Cuneo 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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Cuneo
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Cuneo Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Cuneo
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Cuneo Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Cuneo
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Cuneo I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Cuneo
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Cuneo 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 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Cuneo
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller 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 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Cuneo Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Cuneo
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cuneo An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Cuneo
