The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) D "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn D
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer D Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz D
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates D "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin D
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle D 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 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton D
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan 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 D Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan D
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) D The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman D
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken D I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) D
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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo D Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell D
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France D The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg D
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz D I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill D
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier D Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty D
