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 are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) V Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. V
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "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) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) V "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers V
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw V The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous V
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller V A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and V
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) V The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. V
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill V "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein V
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost V Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) V
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald V One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers V
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 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.
-- We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine V There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West V
Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler V Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff V
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson V "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) V
