Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Localities
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Localities
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Localities Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Localities
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Localities The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Localities
"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, Alice in Wonderland The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Localities If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Localities
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Localities Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Localities
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Localities Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Localities
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Localities "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) 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 Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Localities
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Localities Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha 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 Localities
"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' "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Localities If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Localities
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Localities I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Localities
