I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Competa If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Competa
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Competa If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Competa
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Competa ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Competa
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Competa Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Competa
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Competa Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Competa
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Competa The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Competa
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Competa "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Competa
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Competa Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Competa
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Competa Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Competa
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "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' Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Competa The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Competa
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Competa To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Competa
