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Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Mistley It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Mistley
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Mistley Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Mistley
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Mistley It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Mistley
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Mistley I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Mistley
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Mistley If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Mistley
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Mistley "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Mistley
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Mistley Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Mistley
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Mistley Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Mistley
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Mistley Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mistley
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Mistley "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Mistley
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Mistley Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Mistley
