Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Sered I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Sered
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Sered It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Sered
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Sered A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Sered
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Sered The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid 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.
-- Crowf Sered
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Sered My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Sered
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Sered To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Sered
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Sered Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Sered
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Sered "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Sered
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Sered 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 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Sered
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Sered Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Sered
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Sered Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Sered
