Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "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 I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Dependent Areas 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 fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Dependent Areas
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Dependent Areas Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Dependent Areas
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Dependent Areas The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dependent Areas
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Dependent Areas Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Dependent Areas
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Dependent Areas The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Dependent Areas
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Dependent Areas "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Dependent Areas
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Dependent Areas Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Dependent Areas
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Dependent Areas My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Dependent Areas
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal 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.
-- Winston Churchill Dependent Areas A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Dependent Areas
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Dependent Areas Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Dependent Areas
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Dependent Areas "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Dependent Areas
