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Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson San Zenone Degli Ezzelini If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain San Zenone Degli Ezzelini The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. San Zenone Degli Ezzelini All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) San Zenone Degli Ezzelini blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein San Zenone Degli Ezzelini For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball San Zenone Degli Ezzelini "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling San Zenone Degli Ezzelini 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous San Zenone Degli Ezzelini I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "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) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) San Zenone Degli Ezzelini 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "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) San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen San Zenone Degli Ezzelini Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell San Zenone Degli Ezzelini It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson San Zenone Degli Ezzelini
