"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Selinunte "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Selinunte
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Selinunte It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Selinunte
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "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) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Selinunte "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Selinunte
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Selinunte Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Selinunte
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Selinunte Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Selinunte
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Selinunte "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Selinunte
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Selinunte blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Selinunte
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Selinunte Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Selinunte
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Selinunte Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Selinunte
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Selinunte Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Selinunte
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Selinunte The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Selinunte
