Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) 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 "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Foreign If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Foreign
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Foreign "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Foreign
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Foreign 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 Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 Foreign
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) 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 know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Foreign Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Foreign
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Foreign The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Foreign
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Foreign Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Foreign
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Foreign It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Foreign
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) 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 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Foreign In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Foreign
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Foreign Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Foreign
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 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 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Foreign Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Foreign
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) 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 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Foreign "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Foreign
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