Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 By Region Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West By Region
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric By Region "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin By Region
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill By Region "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. By Region
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James By Region Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln By Region
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "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) 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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
By Region Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman By Region
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay 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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) By Region I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. By Region
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice By Region I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce By Region
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas By Region As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) By Region
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "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) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey By Region If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous By Region
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "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) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry By Region
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region
