Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland MEPs I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous MEPs
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) MEPs My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell MEPs
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar MEPs Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" MEPs
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin MEPs Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) MEPs
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "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) MEPs "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) MEPs
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli MEPs And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright MEPs
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and MEPs I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody MEPs
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) MEPs Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. MEPs
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams MEPs I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland MEPs
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst MEPs I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana MEPs
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire MEPs 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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) MEPs
