"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken South Lakeland He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole 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 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. South Lakeland
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. South Lakeland "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe South Lakeland
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
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II South Lakeland A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz South Lakeland
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils South Lakeland Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi South Lakeland
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) South Lakeland Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine South Lakeland
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke South Lakeland I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson South Lakeland
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. South Lakeland Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) South Lakeland
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow South Lakeland If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents South Lakeland
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) South Lakeland Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner South Lakeland
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale South Lakeland "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce South Lakeland
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau South Lakeland "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman South Lakeland
