We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "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 This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Ports I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Ports
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Ports Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Ports
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Ports I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Ports
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Ports There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Ports
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "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) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Ports The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Ports
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Ports The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Ports
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Ports The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "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 Ports
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Ports It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Ports
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Ports Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board 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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Ports
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Ports America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand 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 Ports
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Ports In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Ports
