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My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Annfield Plain An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Annfield Plain
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Annfield Plain Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Annfield Plain
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Annfield Plain The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Annfield Plain
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Annfield Plain If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Annfield Plain
"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 Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Annfield Plain "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Annfield Plain
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Annfield Plain 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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Annfield Plain
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Annfield Plain If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Annfield Plain
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Annfield Plain The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Annfield Plain
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Annfield Plain We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Annfield Plain
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous 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 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Annfield Plain "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Annfield Plain
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Annfield Plain My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Annfield Plain
