"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 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner 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 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Donwood, Stanley There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Donwood, Stanley
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Donwood, Stanley If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Donwood, Stanley
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Donwood, Stanley A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Donwood, Stanley
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Donwood, Stanley My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Donwood, Stanley
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Donwood, Stanley "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Donwood, Stanley
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Donwood, Stanley Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Donwood, Stanley
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Donwood, Stanley You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Donwood, Stanley
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Donwood, Stanley "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Donwood, Stanley
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles 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 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "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) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Donwood, Stanley "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Donwood, Stanley
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Donwood, Stanley Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Donwood, Stanley
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Donwood, Stanley All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Donwood, Stanley
