I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell 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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Brody Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Brody
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 Brody "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Brody
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Brody He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Brody
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Brody Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Brody
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Brody The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Brody
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Brody "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Brody
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Brody Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Brody
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi 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 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Brody Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Brody
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Brody "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Brody
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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.
-- Winston Churchill "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Brody For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman 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) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Brody
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) 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 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Brody We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Brody
