We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Andalo If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Andalo
"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) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Andalo blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Andalo
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Andalo "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Andalo
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Andalo I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Andalo
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Andalo We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Andalo
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 "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) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Andalo There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Andalo
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Andalo I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Andalo
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Andalo "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Andalo
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Andalo "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Andalo
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Andalo Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Andalo
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Andalo Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha 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 Andalo
