Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Shardlow You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Shardlow
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Shardlow "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Shardlow
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Shardlow I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Shardlow
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Shardlow Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Shardlow
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Man and wife make one fool. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Shardlow 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 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
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Shardlow
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Shardlow "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Shardlow
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "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) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz 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 Shardlow People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Shardlow
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Shardlow "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Shardlow
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Shardlow No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Shardlow
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Shardlow The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Shardlow
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Shardlow May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Shardlow
