There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Oria Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Oria
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Oria There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Oria
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Oria Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Oria
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Oria I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Oria
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Oria Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Oria
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Oria then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Oria
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Oria We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Oria
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Oria People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Oria
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Oria "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Oria
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Oria In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Oria
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Oria "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Oria
