I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Tarnow A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Tarnow
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Tarnow I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tarnow
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Tarnow The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Tarnow
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Tarnow The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Tarnow
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Tarnow As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Tarnow
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Tarnow I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Tarnow
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Tarnow The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tarnow
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Tarnow The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Tarnow
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Tarnow I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Tarnow
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Tarnow Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Tarnow
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Tarnow Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Tarnow
