Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman By Region "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) By Region
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs By Region "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig By Region
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon By Region Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) By Region
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous By Region "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington By Region
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain By Region There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 By Region
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "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) "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) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery By Region Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell By Region
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West 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 The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes 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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) By Region "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran By Region
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi By Region
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker By Region Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones By Region
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By Region There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein By Region
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler 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 was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) By Region In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) By Region
