The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Terni I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Terni
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Terni "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Terni
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Terni Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 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 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Terni
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Terni You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Terni
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Terni "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) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "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) Terni
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Terni Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Terni
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Terni He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Terni
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Terni I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Terni
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Terni When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Terni
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Terni If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Terni
"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 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Terni "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Terni
