I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Sambir Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Sambir
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Sambir "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Sambir
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Sambir Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Sambir
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Sambir My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Sambir
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Sambir "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Sambir
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Sambir 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Sambir
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 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 Sambir Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Sambir
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Sambir You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Sambir
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Sambir Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Sambir
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Sambir "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Sambir
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Sambir After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Sambir
