Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Walcote Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Walcote
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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Walcote "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Walcote
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Walcote Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Walcote
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Walcote My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Walcote
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Walcote He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Walcote
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Walcote The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France 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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Walcote
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Walcote "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Walcote
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Walcote Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Walcote
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Walcote Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Walcote
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Walcote A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Walcote
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Walcote "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) May you never leave your marriage alive. "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) Walcote
