We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Photography Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Photography
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Photography "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Photography
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Photography "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Photography
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Photography I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Photography
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Photography You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Photography
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Photography The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Photography
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde ... 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
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Photography You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Photography
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Photography How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Photography
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Photography Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Photography
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Photography Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Photography
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Photography The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Photography
