"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Cortona "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Cortona
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Cortona "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Cortona
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Cortona Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Cortona
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Cortona Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Cortona
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Cortona 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Cortona
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Cortona I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Cortona
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Cortona I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Cortona
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Cortona "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Cortona
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Cortona When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Cortona
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around 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 Cortona This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Cortona
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick 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. Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Cortona The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Cortona
