Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright 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 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte St Buryan "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa St Buryan
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein St Buryan The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides St Buryan
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery St Buryan What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke St Buryan
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi St Buryan Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) St Buryan
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
St Buryan Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) St Buryan
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 St Buryan Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) St Buryan
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw St Buryan Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet St Buryan
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. St Buryan "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln St Buryan
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President St Buryan And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. St Buryan
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene St Buryan If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) St Buryan
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW St Buryan If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) St Buryan
