"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) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Portsmouth "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Portsmouth
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Portsmouth 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 "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Portsmouth
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Portsmouth Marriage is a rest period between romances. "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Portsmouth
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Portsmouth The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Portsmouth
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Portsmouth The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Portsmouth
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge 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 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Portsmouth It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Portsmouth
"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) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Portsmouth As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Portsmouth
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Portsmouth Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Portsmouth
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Portsmouth Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Portsmouth
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Portsmouth Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Portsmouth
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Portsmouth "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Portsmouth
