There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Events The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "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) Events
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Events .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "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) Events
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Events I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Events
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Events Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Events
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Events "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Events "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Events
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Events All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Events
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Events The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Events
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Events Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Events
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Events 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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Events
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Events "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Events
