The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford By County Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land By County An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables By County
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain By County A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! By County
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama 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) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson By County Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison By County
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle By County Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show By County
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) By County "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx By County
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald By County What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words By County
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham By County "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "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) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) By County Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous By County
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb 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 By County "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) By County
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi By County My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard By County
