Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer 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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Reni Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Reni
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Reni Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Reni
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Reni When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Reni
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Reni Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Reni
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Reni There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Reni
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx 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 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Reni "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Reni
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Reni All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "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) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Reni
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus 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 Reni "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Reni
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Reni I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Reni
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Reni Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Reni
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Reni 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 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Reni
