Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations By Region All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley By Region
What's new? Most of my wife. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker By Region May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) By Region
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer By Region Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes By Region
I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown By Region If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden By Region A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou By Region
"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) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 By Region I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb By Region
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone By Region What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell By Region
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce By Region Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Region
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer By Region When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey By Region
"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 addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. By Region Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde By Region
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) By Region "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) By Region
