"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Appenzell Outer Rhodes 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 Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Appenzell Outer Rhodes Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Appenzell Outer Rhodes
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Appenzell Outer Rhodes Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Appenzell Outer Rhodes
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Appenzell Outer Rhodes Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Appenzell Outer Rhodes
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Appenzell Outer Rhodes He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Appenzell Outer Rhodes Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Appenzell Outer Rhodes "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Appenzell Outer Rhodes Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Appenzell Outer Rhodes
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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 Appenzell Outer Rhodes "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Appenzell Outer Rhodes
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Appenzell Outer Rhodes Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Appenzell Outer Rhodes
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni My other wife is beautiful. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Appenzell Outer Rhodes Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Appenzell Outer Rhodes
