Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins By County The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken By County
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) By County Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley By County
"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) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By County "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf By County
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni 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.
-- Crowf The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley By County In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek By County
"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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams By County "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr By County
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde By County I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) By County
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) May you never leave your marriage alive. By County It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane By County
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. By County Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder By County
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill By County Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) By County
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau By County Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous 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 By County
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau By County Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius By County
