Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde C In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "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) C
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) C Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) C
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. C 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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde C
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 "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier C Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 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 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! C
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli C The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) C
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... 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 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I C The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene C
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand C "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) 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 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell C
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain C blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) C
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) 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 Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker C "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson C
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) C Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) C
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) C "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. C
