A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Think off-center." (George Carlin) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Gerrards Cross "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Gerrards Cross
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Gerrards Cross After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Gerrards Cross
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Gerrards Cross 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 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gerrards Cross
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Gerrards Cross Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Gerrards Cross
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Gerrards Cross If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Gerrards Cross
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Gerrards Cross The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Gerrards Cross
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "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 Gerrards Cross Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Gerrards Cross
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Gerrards Cross Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Gerrards Cross
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Gerrards Cross Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Gerrards Cross
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Gerrards Cross Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu 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 God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Gerrards Cross
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Gerrards Cross My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Gerrards Cross
