A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Services "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Services
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Services Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Services
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Services "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Services
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Services If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Services
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "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) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Services It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Services
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Services "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "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) Services
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. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Services I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Services
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Services If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Services
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Services There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Services
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 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Services Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Services
"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) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Services Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Services
