Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Foligno "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Foligno
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Foligno "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Foligno
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Foligno "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Foligno
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Foligno His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Foligno
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Foligno Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Foligno
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Foligno There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Foligno
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Foligno The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Foligno
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Foligno "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) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Foligno
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Foligno "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Foligno
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Foligno The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Foligno
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Foligno There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Foligno
