I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Home and Garden "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Home and Garden
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Home and Garden "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Home and Garden
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 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 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "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 Home and Garden After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Home and Garden
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "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) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Home and Garden Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Home and Garden
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Home and Garden Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Home and Garden
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Home and Garden Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Home and Garden
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Home and Garden Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Home and Garden
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Home and Garden When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Home and Garden
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Home and Garden This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Home and Garden
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Home and Garden The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Home and Garden
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Home and Garden "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Home and Garden
