If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Localities "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Localities
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Localities "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Localities
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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Localities If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Localities
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Localities The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Localities
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) 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 Localities A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Localities
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Localities The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Localities
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Localities 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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Localities
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Localities A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Localities
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Localities Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Localities
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Localities Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Localities
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 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Localities
