And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Great Notley May you never leave your marriage alive. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Great Notley
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Great Notley 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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Great Notley
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Great Notley Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Great Notley
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Great Notley "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Great Notley
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Great Notley The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Notley
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Great Notley Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "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 A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Great Notley
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Great Notley Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Great Notley
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless 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 Great Notley Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Great Notley
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Great Notley Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Great Notley
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Great Notley I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Great Notley
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Great Notley 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Great Notley
