'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Crawshawbooth It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Crawshawbooth
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Crawshawbooth I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Crawshawbooth
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Crawshawbooth "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Crawshawbooth
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Crawshawbooth Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Crawshawbooth
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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Crawshawbooth "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Crawshawbooth
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Crawshawbooth Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Crawshawbooth
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Crawshawbooth Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Crawshawbooth
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Crawshawbooth "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Crawshawbooth
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Crawshawbooth We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Crawshawbooth
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Crawshawbooth Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Crawshawbooth
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke 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" Crawshawbooth There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Crawshawbooth
