"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Ronda I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Ronda
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Ronda A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Ronda
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Ronda "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Ronda
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Ronda Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Ronda
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Ronda I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Ronda
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Ronda The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Ronda
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Ronda Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Ronda
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Ronda blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Ronda
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Ronda When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Ronda
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Ronda The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Ronda
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Ronda A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Ronda
