Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Localities Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Localities
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Localities Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz 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 Localities
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Localities Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Localities
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Localities All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Localities
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Localities I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Localities
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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) Localities "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) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Localities
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin 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 Unha Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Localities 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 Unha Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Localities
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Localities "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Localities
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "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) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Localities People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Localities
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Localities Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Localities
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Localities The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Localities
