"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus 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 Primary Schools Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Primary Schools
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Primary Schools The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Primary Schools
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Primary Schools Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Primary Schools
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Primary Schools 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 "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Primary Schools
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Primary Schools If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Primary Schools
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Primary Schools A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Primary Schools
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Primary Schools No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Primary Schools
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 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Primary Schools A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Primary Schools
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Primary Schools Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Primary Schools
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Primary Schools 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 "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Primary Schools
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "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 Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Primary Schools Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Primary Schools
