Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Provinces The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Provinces
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West 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 "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Provinces He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Provinces
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Provinces The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Provinces
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Provinces My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Provinces
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Provinces I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Provinces
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Provinces Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Provinces
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Provinces
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Provinces Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Provinces
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Provinces There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 Provinces
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Provinces Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Provinces
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Provinces History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Provinces
