"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Kings Ripton I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Kings Ripton
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Kings Ripton 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 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Kings Ripton
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Kings Ripton blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Kings Ripton
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Kings Ripton "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Kings Ripton
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Kings Ripton To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Kings Ripton
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kings Ripton I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Kings Ripton
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Kings Ripton The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Kings Ripton
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Kings Ripton I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Kings Ripton
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kings Ripton If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Kings Ripton
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Kings Ripton I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "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) Kings Ripton
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Kings Ripton I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Kings Ripton
