Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Brovary I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Brovary
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Brovary "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Brovary
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Brovary The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Brovary
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "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 There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Brovary I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Brovary
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Brovary Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Brovary
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Brovary If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Brovary
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Brovary Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "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 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Brovary
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Brovary Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Brovary
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Brovary There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Brovary
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Brovary Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Brovary
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "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) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Brovary Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Brovary
