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Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman 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 was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Boarding Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Boarding
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Boarding A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Boarding
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Boarding Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Boarding
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Boarding America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Boarding
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Boarding It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Boarding
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Boarding blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Boarding
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Boarding "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Boarding
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Boarding "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Boarding
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Boarding If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Boarding
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Boarding "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Boarding
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Boarding 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,
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Boarding
