Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa 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 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz U Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery U
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) U Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous U
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous U Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of U
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 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France U "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke U
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams U "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) U
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) U "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t U
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor U 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 Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) U
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance 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 U An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) U
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson U Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) U
"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara U I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words U
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson U Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) 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 U
