"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" 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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Uri "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Uri
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Uri Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Uri
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Uri This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Uri
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Uri "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Uri
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Uri Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Uri
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Uri Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "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 we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Uri
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Uri Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Uri
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Uri "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Uri
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Uri The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Uri
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Uri Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Uri
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Uri I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Uri
