"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. By Locality All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar By Locality
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb By Locality "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Locality
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West By Locality Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg By Locality
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board By Locality The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill By Locality
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian By Locality "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz By Locality
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins By Locality I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair By Locality
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) By Locality Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas By Locality
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen By Locality He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) By Locality
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley 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 By Locality Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) By Locality
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain By Locality "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb By Locality
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers By Locality Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning By Locality
