"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Enna There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Enna
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Enna "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Enna
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Enna That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Enna
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Enna Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Enna
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Enna The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Enna
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Enna When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Enna
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Enna Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Enna
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Enna The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Enna
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Enna A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Enna
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Enna "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Enna
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Marriage is a rest period between romances. 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 Enna "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Enna
