We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Allerdale Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Allerdale
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "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) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Allerdale "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Allerdale
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Allerdale Man and wife make one fool. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Allerdale
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Allerdale "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Allerdale
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Allerdale Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Allerdale
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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) Allerdale I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "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) Allerdale
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Allerdale "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Allerdale
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Allerdale "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Allerdale
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Allerdale You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Allerdale
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Allerdale I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Allerdale
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "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) Allerdale Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Allerdale
