When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey S "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton S
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham S What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless S
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb S It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III S
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed S As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard S
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" S Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa S
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) S "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne S
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash 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 S If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno S
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley S Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert S
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw S Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford 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 Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. S
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery S Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge S
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) S "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward S
