Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Verona The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Verona
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Verona Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Verona
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Verona I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Verona
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Verona Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Verona
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had 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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Verona I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Verona
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Verona When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Verona
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Verona Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Verona
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray 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 Verona True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Verona
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Verona The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Verona
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Verona Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Verona
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Verona "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Verona
