To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Appraisers If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Appraisers
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Appraisers All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Appraisers
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Appraisers Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Appraisers
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Appraisers One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Appraisers
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) 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 Appraisers My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Appraisers
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Appraisers Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Appraisers
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Appraisers Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Appraisers
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "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 It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Appraisers There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Appraisers
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Appraisers Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Appraisers
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Appraisers "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 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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Appraisers
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Appraisers Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Appraisers
