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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) H "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb H
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) H "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald H
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde H Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. H
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen H Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans H
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) H Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" H
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans H "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) H
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken H Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead H
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 H "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe H
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) H You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld H
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) H "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) H
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. H The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) H
