Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Cangas de Onis Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Cangas de Onis
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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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 Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Cangas de Onis 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Cangas de Onis
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Cangas de Onis It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Cangas de Onis
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) 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 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Cangas de Onis I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Cangas de Onis
"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) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Cangas de Onis Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Cangas de Onis
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Cangas de Onis Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Cangas de Onis
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Cangas de Onis Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Cangas de Onis
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Cangas de Onis We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Cangas de Onis
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Cangas de Onis "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cangas de Onis
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Cangas de Onis "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Cangas de Onis
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Cangas de Onis The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Cangas de Onis
