People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor 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 Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Torchyn The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Torchyn
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Torchyn Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Torchyn "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Torchyn
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Torchyn Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Torchyn
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 variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Torchyn Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Torchyn Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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) 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) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Torchyn Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Torchyn
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Torchyn The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Torchyn
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Torchyn "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Torchyn
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Torchyn What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Torchyn
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Torchyn Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Torchyn
