"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Bari Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Bari
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Bari "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Bari
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Bari It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Bari
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Bari If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Bari
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Bari "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) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Bari
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom 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 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Bari I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Bari
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Bari blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Bari
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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Bari For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Bari
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Bari "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Bari
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 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Bari "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Bari
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Bari Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show 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 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Bari