"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Kozelets A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kozelets
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Kozelets There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Kozelets
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Kozelets Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "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) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Kozelets
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Kozelets "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Kozelets
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Kozelets There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Kozelets
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Kozelets I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Kozelets
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Kozelets It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "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) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Kozelets
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kozelets Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla 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 Kozelets
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Kozelets Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Kozelets
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Kozelets 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. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Kozelets
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Kozelets Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Kozelets
