A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic W A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 W
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) W "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh W
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James W Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe W
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) W A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) W
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "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) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) W Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr W
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle W The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain W
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald W Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder W
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur W "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) W
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) W "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis W
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) W "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup W
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) W If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison W
