That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Keysoe The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Keysoe
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Keysoe The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Keysoe
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Keysoe "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Keysoe
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Keysoe Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Keysoe
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Keysoe Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Keysoe
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "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) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Keysoe All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Keysoe
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Keysoe Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Keysoe
"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) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Keysoe The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Keysoe
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Keysoe Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Keysoe
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Keysoe When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Keysoe
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "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) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Keysoe If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Keysoe