Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Benahavis Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Benahavis
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Benahavis "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Benahavis
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Benahavis Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Benahavis
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Benahavis They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and My other wife is beautiful. Benahavis
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Benahavis The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Benahavis
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Benahavis After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Benahavis
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 An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes 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 "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Benahavis Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Benahavis
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Benahavis Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Benahavis
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Benahavis I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Benahavis
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "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) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Benahavis "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford 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 Benahavis
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Benahavis Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Benahavis
