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Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee 7 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "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 7
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) 7 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 7
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 7 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling 7
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz 7 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 7
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 7 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw 7
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde 7 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago 7
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain 7 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker 7
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "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 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words 7 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey 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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 7
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler 7 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 7
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele 7 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz 7
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein 7 The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 7
