A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Cuenca Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Cuenca
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Cuenca We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Cuenca
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Cuenca Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Cuenca
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Cuenca A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Cuenca
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Cuenca The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Cuenca
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Cuenca Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Cuenca
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Cuenca "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Cuenca
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Cuenca While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Cuenca
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Cuenca If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Cuenca
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Cuenca Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Cuenca
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Cuenca I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Cuenca
