The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Residential And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Residential
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Residential The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot 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 Residential
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Residential If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Residential
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Residential When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Residential
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Residential "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Residential
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Residential Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Residential
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Residential "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 Residential
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Residential When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Residential
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 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Residential The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Residential
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Residential If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Residential
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 Residential "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) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Residential
