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"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaďs Nin Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mountsorrel The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Mountsorrel
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Mountsorrel Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Mountsorrel
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Mountsorrel You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Mountsorrel
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 Mountsorrel "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Mountsorrel
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) 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 To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Mountsorrel There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Mountsorrel
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Mountsorrel Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Mountsorrel
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Mountsorrel A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Mountsorrel
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Mountsorrel "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Mountsorrel
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Mountsorrel When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Mountsorrel
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Mountsorrel If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Mountsorrel
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Mountsorrel What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Mountsorrel
