For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Styles I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Styles
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Styles The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Styles
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Styles "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Styles
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Styles Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Styles
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Styles A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Styles
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Styles The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Styles
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Styles Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair 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 Styles
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine 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 Styles Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Styles
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Styles "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Styles
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali 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) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Styles "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 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Styles
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Styles History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Styles
