In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "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 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words By County The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery By County The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) By County
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben By County Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D By County
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw By County There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein By County
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde By County "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem By County
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan By County "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) By County
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g By County Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde By County
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) By County "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid By County
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France By County If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses By County
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner 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) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall By County
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant By County "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas By County
