A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey By Region Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) By Region
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes By Region "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 Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 By Region
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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.
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson By Region Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard By Region
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) By Region "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Man and wife make one fool. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( By Region The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach By Region
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to 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 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 By Region "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By Region
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "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 "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates By Region Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) By Region
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) By Region Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) By Region
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski By Region 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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) By Region
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh By Region "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "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 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere By Region
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show By Region Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words By Region
