Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) 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 A
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld A The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel A
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright A
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) A May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens A "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat A
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh A
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) 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 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell A The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A
