When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Corby Glen 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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung 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 Corby Glen
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Corby Glen blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Corby Glen
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Corby Glen My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Corby Glen
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Corby Glen 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 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Corby Glen
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Corby Glen "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Corby Glen
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Corby Glen Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Corby Glen
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Corby Glen Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Corby Glen
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Corby Glen It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy 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, Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Corby Glen
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Corby Glen Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Corby Glen
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Corby Glen The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Corby Glen
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Corby Glen If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Corby Glen
