The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Event Planning Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Event Planning
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Event Planning "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Event Planning
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Event Planning Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Event Planning
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Event Planning An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz 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 Event Planning
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Event Planning Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Event Planning
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Event Planning "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Event Planning
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Event Planning 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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Event Planning
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Event Planning Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Event Planning
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Event Planning Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Event Planning
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Event Planning There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Event Planning
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Event Planning The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Event Planning
