Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Q He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Q
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Q Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Q
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Q "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Q
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Q "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Q
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Q It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Q
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Q You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Q
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Q In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Q
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Q You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Q
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Q "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Q
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Q The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Q
"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) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Q The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Q
