I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Murcia "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Murcia
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Murcia A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Murcia
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Murcia There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Murcia
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Murcia I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Murcia
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Murcia Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Murcia
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Murcia Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Murcia
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Murcia When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Murcia
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Murcia People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 Murcia
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Murcia There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Murcia
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Murcia "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Murcia
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) 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 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Murcia To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Murcia
