It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Coin Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Coin
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Coin Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Coin
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Coin Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Coin
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Coin All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Coin
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Coin History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "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, Coin
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Coin "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Coin
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Coin If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "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) Coin
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Coin Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "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 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Coin
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Coin Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Coin
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 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Coin Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Coin
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Coin "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Coin
