Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Provinces When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Provinces
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Provinces We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Provinces
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Provinces The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Provinces
"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) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Provinces One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Provinces
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Provinces I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Provinces
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Provinces The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Provinces
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Provinces Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Provinces
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co 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 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Provinces Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Provinces
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski 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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Provinces If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Provinces
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Provinces When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Provinces
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Provinces "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Provinces
