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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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Translation Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Translation
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Translation Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Translation
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Translation Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Translation
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Translation If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Translation
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Translation Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Translation
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Translation Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Translation
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Translation Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Translation
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Translation That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Translation
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Translation He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Translation
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Translation I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Translation
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Translation This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Translation
