When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Rock Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Rock
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "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 Rock Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Rock
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Rock A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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
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It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Rock "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Rock
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Rock If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Rock
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Rock blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Rock
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Rock There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rock
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Rock "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Rock
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) 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 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 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Rock 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 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Rock
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Rock A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "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) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Rock
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) 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 "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rock "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Rock
