Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Rokytne It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Rokytne
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. 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, Rokytne Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Rokytne
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Rokytne It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Rokytne
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Rokytne The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Rokytne
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Rokytne It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Rokytne
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rokytne "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) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Rokytne
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Rokytne A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Rokytne
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) 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 dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Rokytne It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Rokytne
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Rokytne "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Rokytne
May you never leave your marriage alive. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Rokytne I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Rokytne
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. 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 Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin 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, There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Rokytne Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Rokytne
