I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "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) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Kety Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Kety
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Kety The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe 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.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Kety
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous 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 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Kety A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Kety
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Kety "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "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) Kety
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kety The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Kety
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Kety The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Kety
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Kety 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 Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Kety
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Kety In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Kety
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Kety 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 To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kety
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Kety "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) My other wife is beautiful. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kety
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kety True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Kety
