The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Salares The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Salares
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Salares Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Salares
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Salares Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Salares
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Salares This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Salares
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Salares Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Salares
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Salares He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Salares
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Salares "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Salares
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Salares My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Salares
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Salares My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. 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 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Salares
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Salares As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Salares
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings 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 Salares I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Salares
