"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Burgos "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Burgos The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Burgos
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Burgos I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Burgos
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Burgos "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Burgos
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Burgos "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Burgos
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Burgos She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Burgos
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Burgos Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Burgos
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Burgos The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Burgos
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "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 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Burgos It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Burgos
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Burgos "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Burgos
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burgos "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Burgos
