There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Canet de Mar A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Canet de Mar
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Canet de Mar Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Canet de Mar
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Canet de Mar Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Canet de Mar
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Canet de Mar "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Canet de Mar
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Canet de Mar We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Canet de Mar
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Canet de Mar Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Canet de Mar
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Canet de Mar We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Canet de Mar
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Canet de Mar blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Canet de Mar
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Canet de Mar See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Canet de Mar
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Canet de Mar The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Canet de Mar
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Canet de Mar We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Canet de Mar
