If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Little Waltham Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Little Waltham
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Little Waltham Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Little Waltham
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Little Waltham No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Little Waltham
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Little Waltham Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Little Waltham
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Little Waltham blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Little Waltham
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Little Waltham "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Little Waltham
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Little Waltham Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 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 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Little Waltham
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Little Waltham When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Little Waltham
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Little Waltham A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Little Waltham
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Little Waltham Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Little Waltham
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Little Waltham I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Little Waltham
