The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Attractions "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Attractions
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Attractions Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Attractions
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Attractions If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Attractions
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Attractions Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Attractions
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Attractions The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Attractions
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Attractions Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Attractions
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Attractions "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Attractions
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Attractions "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Attractions
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Attractions I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Attractions
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Attractions I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Attractions
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Attractions Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Attractions
