If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Mortgages "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Mortgages
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Mortgages A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Mortgages
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Mortgages To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Mortgages
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Mortgages I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Mortgages
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Mortgages I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "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) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mortgages
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Mortgages Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Mortgages
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Mortgages During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Mortgages
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mortgages "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Mortgages
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Mortgages Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Mortgages
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Mortgages In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Mortgages
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Mortgages An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Mortgages
