I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "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) By Region I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) By Region
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel 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" You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup By Region I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz By Region
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "'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, Through the Looking Glass) By Region Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) By Region
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard By Region "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) By Region
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe 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 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous By Region I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell By Region
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Man and wife make one fool. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician By Region Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 By Region Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet By Region
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov By Region We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa By Region
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Region I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon By Region
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde By Region "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne By Region
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) By Region Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. By Region
