Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Ranches "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Ranches
"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) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "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) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Ranches When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Ranches
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Ranches When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Ranches
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Ranches Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Ranches
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Ranches "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Ranches
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Ranches Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Ranches
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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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 Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Ranches Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Ranches
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Ranches Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ranches
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Ranches "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Ranches
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Ranches "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ranches
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Ranches This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ranches
