A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Siena "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Siena
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Sřren Kierkegaard Siena "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Siena
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Siena Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Siena
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Siena Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through 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 Siena
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Siena The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Siena
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Siena Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril 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 Siena
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Siena The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Siena
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen 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 Siena Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Siena
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Siena "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Siena
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Siena The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) 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 Siena
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Siena The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Siena
