I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show News and Media The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker News and Media
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier News and Media To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) News and Media
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per News and Media Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb News and Media
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "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' News and Media
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll News and Media Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) News and Media
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) News and Media "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine News and Media
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi News and Media "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John News and Media
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 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 News and Media He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that News and Media
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) 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 News and Media My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. 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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) News and Media
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "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) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) News and Media When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett News and Media
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) News and Media A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall News and Media
