There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Picture Framing Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Picture Framing
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Picture Framing "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Picture Framing
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine 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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Picture Framing A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Picture Framing
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Picture Framing What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Picture Framing
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Picture Framing Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Picture Framing
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Picture Framing If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Picture Framing
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Picture Framing Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Picture Framing
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Picture Framing Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Picture Framing
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Picture Framing It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Picture Framing
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Picture Framing The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Picture Framing
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Picture Framing Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Picture Framing
