Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Ashford The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Ashford
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Ashford The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Ashford
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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life 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 Ashford I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Ashford
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Ashford Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Ashford
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Ashford I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Ashford
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Ashford What's new? Most of my wife. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Ashford
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ashford "Think off-center." (George Carlin) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Ashford
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Ashford This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Ashford
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Ashford "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Ashford
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "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) Ashford Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ashford
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Ashford Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Ashford
