When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Romny Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Romny
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Romny In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Romny
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Romny "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Romny
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Romny Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Romny
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Romny The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Romny
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Romny There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Romny
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Romny 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.
-- Anonymous Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Romny
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Romny If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Romny
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Romny "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Romny
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Romny In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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 Romny
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Romny I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Romny
