He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Marbella It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Marbella
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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, We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Marbella Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Marbella
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marbella Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marbella
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Marbella We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Marbella
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marbella "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marbella
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Marbella 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 gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Marbella
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Marbella "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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 UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marbella
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marbella Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Marbella
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Marbella The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marbella
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Marbella The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marbella
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marbella "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Marbella
