Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "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) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... By County He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton By County
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying By County
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone By County You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager By County
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld By County "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) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. By County
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover By County Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) By County
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves By County Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler By County
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 By County The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda By County
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan By County "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the By County
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) By County 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 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern By County
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop By County "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers By County
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 By County One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) By County
