People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Ticknall Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Ticknall
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Ticknall To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Ticknall
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Ticknall "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Ticknall
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana 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 For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Ticknall In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Ticknall
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Ticknall It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Ticknall
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "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) Ticknall I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Ticknall
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ticknall In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Ticknall
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Ticknall Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Ticknall
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Ticknall "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Ticknall
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ticknall All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Ticknall
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Ticknall Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ticknall
