Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Lyonshall The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Lyonshall
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 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Lyonshall Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Lyonshall
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) 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 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Lyonshall I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Lyonshall
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Lyonshall What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Lyonshall
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Lyonshall Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Lyonshall
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Lyonshall You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Lyonshall
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Lyonshall "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Lyonshall
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lyonshall "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lyonshall
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) 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 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Lyonshall 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 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Lyonshall
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Lyonshall Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Lyonshall
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lyonshall Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Lyonshall
