The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill J Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) J
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh J The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) J
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. J The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 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 J
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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 J Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt J
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) J The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) J
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber J A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) J
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw J Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "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) J
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson J The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach J
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun J Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci J
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous J I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your J
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West J "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) J
