Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Religion "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Religion
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Religion I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Religion
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Religion Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Religion
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Religion The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Religion
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Religion "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Religion
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Religion Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Religion
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Religion "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Religion
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Religion The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Religion
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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Religion Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Religion
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Religion Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Religion
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Religion A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Religion
