Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little WWW He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx 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 WWW
"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 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall WWW blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. WWW
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. WWW Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry WWW
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) WWW No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) WWW
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry WWW If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle WWW
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) WWW Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy WWW
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "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) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley WWW The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings WWW
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein WWW Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) WWW
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy WWW If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett WWW
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from WWW Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 WWW
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher WWW Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting WWW
