The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Frenchwood Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Frenchwood
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Frenchwood I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Frenchwood
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Frenchwood I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Frenchwood
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Frenchwood Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Frenchwood
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Frenchwood Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Frenchwood
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Frenchwood What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Frenchwood
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "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) Frenchwood More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Frenchwood
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Frenchwood Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Frenchwood
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Frenchwood "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Frenchwood
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Frenchwood The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Frenchwood
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Frenchwood Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Frenchwood
