May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers By County We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) By County
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy By County "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly By County
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling By County "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford By County
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln By County The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe By County
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton By County "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) By County
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) By County "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov By County
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show By County "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. By County
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? By County Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz By County
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins By County May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford By County
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that By County We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson By County
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones By County Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) By County
