Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. By County "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) By County
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) By County Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol By County
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb By County Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By County
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend By County No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley By County
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain 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 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle By County "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) By County
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) By County In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) By County
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming 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. All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau By County Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black By County
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses 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 By County Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur By County
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "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 great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha By County Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" By County
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard By County Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) By County
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy By County "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous By County
