When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) By Region Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre By Region
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley By Region I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson By Region
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" By Region If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson By Region
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon By Region Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed By Region
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) By Region Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') By Region
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein By Region The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 By Region
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer By Region "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset By Region
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi By Region "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas By Region
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie By Region Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "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 By Region
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) By Region Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato By Region
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill By Region Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman By Region
