I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus 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 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Comberton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Comberton
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Comberton Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Comberton
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Comberton For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Comberton
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Comberton "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) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Comberton
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Comberton All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Comberton
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Comberton Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Comberton
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon 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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Comberton People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Comberton
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "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) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Comberton Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Comberton
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Comberton If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Comberton
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Comberton Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Comberton
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Comberton When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Comberton
