Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Catholicism "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Catholicism
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Catholicism Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Catholicism
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Catholicism History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Catholicism
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Catholicism I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Catholicism
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Catholicism Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Catholicism
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Catholicism "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Catholicism
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Catholicism Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Catholicism
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Catholicism For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Catholicism
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Catholicism "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Catholicism
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Catholicism Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Catholicism
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Catholicism A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Catholicism
