The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. X Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons X
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) X Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) X
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) X Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) X
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous X Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying X
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t X Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands X
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard X Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis 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 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou X
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? X "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin X
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown 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 X "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. X
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber X There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon X
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler X It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson X
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson X "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) 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" "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni X
