The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson X When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason X
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni X "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor X
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow X Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) X
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett X blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov X
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) X Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) X
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe X In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw X
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln X Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous X
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca X Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol X
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur X Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson X
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin X A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein X
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 X "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea X
