Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Prymorsk After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Prymorsk
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Prymorsk Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Prymorsk
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Prymorsk I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Prymorsk
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Prymorsk A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Prymorsk
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Prymorsk Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Prymorsk
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Prymorsk I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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) Prymorsk
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Prymorsk "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Prymorsk
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "... 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 hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Prymorsk "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Prymorsk
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 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Prymorsk "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Prymorsk
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Prymorsk People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Prymorsk
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Prymorsk Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Prymorsk
