"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Casares Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Casares
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Casares Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Casares
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Casares "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) 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 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Casares
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Casares The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, 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 Casares
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Casares "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Casares
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Casares The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Casares
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Casares Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Casares
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Casares He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Casares
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Casares "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Casares
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "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) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 Casares A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Casares
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Casares I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Casares
