Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "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-) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Valdorcia If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Valdorcia
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Valdorcia Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Valdorcia
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Valdorcia "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Valdorcia
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Valdorcia "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Valdorcia
"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 Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Valdorcia "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Valdorcia
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Valdorcia "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Valdorcia
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Valdorcia The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Valdorcia
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Valdorcia "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Valdorcia
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Valdorcia "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Valdorcia
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Valdorcia For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Valdorcia
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Valdorcia Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Valdorcia
