It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Slough Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Slough
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Slough All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Slough
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Slough Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Slough
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Slough Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Slough
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "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) Slough "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Slough
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 Slough I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Slough
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 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Slough I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Slough
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Slough "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Slough
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Slough "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Slough
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Slough The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Slough
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Slough There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Slough
