"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Alhaurin el Grande "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Alhaurin el Grande
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Alhaurin el Grande Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Alhaurin el Grande
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Alhaurin el Grande The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Alhaurin el Grande
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Alhaurin el Grande Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Alhaurin el Grande
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Alhaurin el Grande If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Alhaurin el Grande
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 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Alhaurin el Grande We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Alhaurin el Grande
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Alhaurin el Grande Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Alhaurin el Grande
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Alhaurin el Grande "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Alhaurin el Grande
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Alhaurin el Grande If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Alhaurin el Grande
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Alhaurin el Grande The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Alhaurin el Grande
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Alhaurin el Grande "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Alhaurin el Grande
