Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Portalegre Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Portalegre
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Portalegre 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 The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Portalegre
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Portalegre Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Portalegre
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Portalegre A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Portalegre
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Portalegre Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Portalegre
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Portalegre "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Portalegre
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Portalegre A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Portalegre
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Portalegre Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Portalegre
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Portalegre Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Portalegre
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Portalegre Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Portalegre
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Portalegre Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Portalegre
