Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry By County Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) By County
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous By County 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. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) By County
"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) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White By County Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what By County
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov By County Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost By County
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill By County "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous By County
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow By County The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" By County
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire By County The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) By County
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co By County I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) By County
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) By County All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' By County
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board By County Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole By County
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) By County A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi By County
