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 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Aspley Guise Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Aspley Guise
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Aspley Guise "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Aspley Guise
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Aspley Guise "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Aspley Guise
"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 "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) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Aspley Guise "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Aspley Guise
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "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) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Aspley Guise If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Aspley Guise
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Aspley Guise Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Aspley Guise
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Aspley Guise Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Aspley Guise
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Aspley Guise Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Aspley Guise
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Aspley Guise The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Aspley Guise
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Aspley Guise People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Aspley Guise
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Aspley Guise They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous 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 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Aspley Guise
