I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Nidwalden The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Nidwalden
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Nidwalden The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Nidwalden
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Nidwalden A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Nidwalden
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 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Nidwalden The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nidwalden
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Nidwalden It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Nidwalden
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Nidwalden Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Nidwalden
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Nidwalden The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Nidwalden
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Nidwalden Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Nidwalden
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Nidwalden "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Nidwalden
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Nidwalden When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Nidwalden
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "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 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Nidwalden If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Nidwalden
