Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Tychy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Tychy
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Tychy Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Tychy
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 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Tychy "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) 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 "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Tychy
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer 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 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 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Tychy Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Tychy
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) 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 When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Tychy Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Tychy
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Tychy 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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Tychy
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Tychy The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Tychy
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Tychy "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Tychy
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Tychy "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tychy
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Tychy Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Tychy
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) 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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tychy Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Tychy
