Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Kreminna I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Kreminna
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Kreminna Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kreminna
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Kreminna Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Kreminna
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Kreminna "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Kreminna
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Kreminna Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Kreminna
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Kreminna There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Kreminna
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Kreminna If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Kreminna
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Kreminna Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Kreminna
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Kreminna Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Kreminna
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Kreminna He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Kreminna
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Kreminna I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Kreminna
