Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Localities Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Localities
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi 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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Localities "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Localities
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Localities Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Localities
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Localities The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Localities
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Localities I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Localities
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "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 Localities The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Localities
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Localities There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) 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 Localities
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Localities "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Localities
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Localities If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Anyway, 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,
ign Localities
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Localities Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Localities
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Anyway, 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,
ign "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Localities I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Localities
