This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Textiles and Nonwovens I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Textiles and Nonwovens
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Textiles and Nonwovens The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Textiles and Nonwovens
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "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) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Textiles and Nonwovens Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Textiles and Nonwovens
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Textiles and Nonwovens My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Textiles and Nonwovens
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Textiles and Nonwovens Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Textiles and Nonwovens
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Textiles and Nonwovens The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Textiles and Nonwovens
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Textiles and Nonwovens 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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 Textiles and Nonwovens
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Textiles and Nonwovens I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb 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 Textiles and Nonwovens
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 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Textiles and Nonwovens There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Textiles and Nonwovens
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 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 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Textiles and Nonwovens "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Textiles and Nonwovens
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Textiles and Nonwovens Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Textiles and Nonwovens
