If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Television A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Television
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Television "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Television
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Television Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Television
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Television The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Television
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Television Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Television
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "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) 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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Television "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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold 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.
-- Crow Television
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Television Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Television
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Television "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Television
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Television "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Television
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Television All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Television
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Television "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Television
