Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Genealogy It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Genealogy
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Genealogy Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Genealogy
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Genealogy Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Genealogy
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Genealogy Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Genealogy
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Genealogy 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 "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Genealogy
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Genealogy That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Genealogy
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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy 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) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Genealogy
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Genealogy "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Genealogy
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita 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 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Genealogy None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Genealogy
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Genealogy Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Genealogy
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Genealogy
