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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan News and Media We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show News and Media
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician News and Media 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 "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese News and Media
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous News and Media What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason News and Media
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) News and Media "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz News and Media
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant News and Media I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi News and Media
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman News and Media Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) News and Media
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun News and Media "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner News and Media
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael News and Media Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "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) 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 News and Media
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton News and Media A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James News and Media
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi News and Media A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi News and Media
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
