"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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Wickford No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Wickford
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards 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 "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Wickford "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Wickford
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wickford Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wickford
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Wickford They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Wickford
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Wickford I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 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 Wickford
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Wickford The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Wickford
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Wickford If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Wickford
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Wickford All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Wickford
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Wickford To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 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 Wickford
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Wickford Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen 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 "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Wickford
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Wickford "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Wickford
