Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Oil and Gas Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Oil and Gas
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Oil and Gas "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Oil and Gas
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Oil and Gas "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Oil and Gas
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Oil and Gas 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 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Oil and Gas
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Oil and Gas No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Oil and Gas
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Oil and Gas What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Oil and Gas
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Oil and Gas Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Oil and Gas
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Oil and Gas Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Oil and Gas
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Oil and Gas Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Oil and Gas
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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 Unhappy Oil and Gas A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Oil and Gas
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Oil and Gas Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Oil and Gas
