Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Translation We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Translation
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Translation There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Translation
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Translation Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Translation
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Translation "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Translation
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Translation "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Translation
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Translation The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Translation
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Translation Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Translation
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Translation You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Translation
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Translation It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Translation
My other wife is beautiful. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Translation "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Translation
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Translation "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Translation
