Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Theddingworth "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Theddingworth
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Theddingworth If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Theddingworth
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Theddingworth He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Theddingworth
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Theddingworth Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Theddingworth
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 Theddingworth "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' The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Theddingworth
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Theddingworth Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Theddingworth
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Theddingworth It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Theddingworth
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Theddingworth If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Theddingworth
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Theddingworth Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Theddingworth
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Theddingworth Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Theddingworth
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Theddingworth Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Theddingworth
