"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Este blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Este
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Este A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Este
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Este May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Este
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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.
-- Winston Churchill Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Este In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Este
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Este "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Este
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Este There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Este
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "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 Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Este Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Este
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Este I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Este
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 "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Este Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Este
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Este What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Este
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Este Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Este
