Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 Buddhism Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Buddhism
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Buddhism And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Buddhism
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Buddhism Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. 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 Buddhism
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Buddhism I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Buddhism
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Buddhism Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Buddhism
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Buddhism The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Buddhism
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Buddhism "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Buddhism
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) 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 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Buddhism "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "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' Buddhism
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Buddhism "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Buddhism
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Buddhism The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Buddhism
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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Buddhism If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Buddhism
