Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the 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 I "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker 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) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) I In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar 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 I
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun 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 I
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I
