"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Regions I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Regions
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 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Regions
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Regions Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Regions
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken 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 A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Regions Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Regions
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Regions Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Regions
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Regions Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Regions
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Regions Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Regions
May you never leave your marriage alive. "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Regions The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Regions
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "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 Regions We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Regions
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Regions All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Regions
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Regions Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Regions
