"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Great Langdale What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Great Langdale
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Great Langdale A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Great Langdale
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Great Langdale Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Great Langdale
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Great Langdale Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Great Langdale
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Great Langdale I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Great Langdale
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "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) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Great Langdale Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Great Langdale
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Great Langdale Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Great Langdale
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Great Langdale Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Great Langdale
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Great Langdale Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Great Langdale
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Great Langdale "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Great Langdale
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Great Langdale The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Great Langdale
