The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Interior Design The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa 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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Interior Design
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Interior Design Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Interior Design
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Interior Design And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Interior Design
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Interior Design If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Interior Design
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru 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 I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Interior Design I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Interior Design
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Interior Design Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Interior Design
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Interior Design When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Interior Design
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Interior Design Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "... 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) 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 Interior Design
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Interior Design I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Interior Design
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Interior Design "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Interior Design
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Interior Design "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Interior Design
