Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Lanzarote As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Lanzarote
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Lanzarote They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Lanzarote
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Lanzarote "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Lanzarote
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Lanzarote And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Lanzarote
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Lanzarote In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Lanzarote
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Lanzarote The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Lanzarote
Marriage is a rest period between romances. "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Lanzarote Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Lanzarote
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Lanzarote You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lanzarote
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Lanzarote May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Lanzarote
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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) Lanzarote "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Lanzarote
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Lanzarote A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Lanzarote
