I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball 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 A "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) A
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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, There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' A
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) A "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century A
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) A "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol A
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw A
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 A
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre A Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying A Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) A
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A
