Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Tenerife May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Tenerife
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid 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 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Tenerife Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha >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 Tenerife
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Tenerife Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Tenerife
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) What's new? Most of my wife. 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 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Tenerife Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Tenerife
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Tenerife If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Tenerife
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Tenerife The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Tenerife
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Tenerife Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Tenerife
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Tenerife It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Tenerife
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Tenerife To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Tenerife
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings 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) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Tenerife Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Tenerife
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tenerife It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "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) Tenerife
