"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Religion What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Religion
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Religion Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Religion
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Religion "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Religion
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Religion People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Religion
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "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 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Religion I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Religion
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Religion "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Religion
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 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 Religion Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Religion
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Religion To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Religion
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Religion blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Religion
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "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) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Religion They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Religion
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Religion "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Religion
