We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Zebbug A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Zebbug
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Zebbug "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Zebbug
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Zebbug Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Zebbug
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Zebbug Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Zebbug
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Zebbug What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Zebbug
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Zebbug Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Zebbug
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Zebbug I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Zebbug
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Zebbug The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Zebbug
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Zebbug I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Zebbug
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Zebbug Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Zebbug
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Zebbug "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Zebbug
