They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Torrox Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Torrox
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Torrox "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Torrox
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Torrox "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Torrox
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Torrox If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Torrox
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Torrox "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Torrox
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Torrox Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Torrox
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Torrox Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Torrox
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Torrox I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Torrox
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Torrox No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Torrox
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Torrox Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Torrox
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Torrox "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Torrox
