The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. By County I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem By County
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "... 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) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous By County We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha By County
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer By County The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain By County
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. By County We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) By County
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou By County "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman By County
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "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) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins By County "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley By County
"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 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) By County I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell By County
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 By County 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins By County
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. By County Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac By County
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker By County Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine By County
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson By County Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael By County
