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 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Y I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Spinster: A bachelor's wife. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Y
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Y "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Y
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Y "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Y
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Y University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Y
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Y If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Y
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Y Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Y
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Y "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Y
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Y One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Y
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Y Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Y
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Y Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Y
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Y "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Y
