"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Klobuck The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Klobuck
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Klobuck Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "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 Klobuck
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Klobuck The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Klobuck
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Klobuck "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Klobuck
"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) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Klobuck Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Klobuck
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Klobuck I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Klobuck
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Klobuck To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Klobuck
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Klobuck "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Klobuck
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 a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Klobuck We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Klobuck
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Klobuck Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Klobuck
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Klobuck Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Klobuck
