Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings L Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber L
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge L The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) L
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham L Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying L
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau L Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician L
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein L God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic L
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. L Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt L
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill L If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker L
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) L Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley L
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni L 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 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde L
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) L Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody L
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) L A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre L
