"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Religion "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Religion
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Religion What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Religion
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "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 Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Religion 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 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Religion
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Religion If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Religion
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Religion "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Religion
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Religion "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Religion
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President 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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Religion I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Religion
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion 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 Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Religion
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 Religion "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 thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Religion
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Religion blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Religion
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Religion When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Religion
