Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Pejo There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Pejo
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Pejo Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "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 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Pejo
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou 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 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Pejo No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Pejo
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Pejo I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pejo
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Pejo Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Pejo
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Pejo Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Pejo
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Pejo "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Pejo
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Pejo I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian 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 He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Pejo
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Pejo 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, No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Pejo
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy 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 The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Pejo If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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 Pejo
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Pejo Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Pejo
