Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Localities The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Localities
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 Localities "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Localities There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Localities
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Localities The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Localities
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Localities "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) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Localities
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "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) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Localities "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "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 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Localities Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Localities
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Localities "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Localities
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Localities I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Localities
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Localities "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) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Localities
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Localities "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Localities
