A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Internet Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Internet
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Internet Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Internet
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Internet "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Internet
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Internet He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Internet
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Internet Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Internet
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Internet Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Internet
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Internet The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Internet
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Internet Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Internet
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Internet We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Internet
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Internet "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Internet
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Internet I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Internet
