I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Home and Garden Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Home and Garden
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Home and Garden "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Home and Garden
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Home and Garden Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Home and Garden
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "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) Home and Garden If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Home and Garden
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Home and Garden Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Home and Garden
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot 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 true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Home and Garden Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Home and Garden
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Home and Garden Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Home and Garden
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Home and Garden 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 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Home and Garden
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Home and Garden A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Home and Garden
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 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Home and Garden Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Home and Garden
