I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon 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 conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Waverton Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Waverton
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Waverton "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Waverton
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "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) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Waverton True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Waverton
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Waverton A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Waverton
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Waverton The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Waverton
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 "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) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Waverton "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Waverton
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Waverton "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Waverton
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. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "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) Waverton In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Waverton
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Waverton The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Waverton
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Waverton "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 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. 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 Waverton
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Waverton If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Waverton
