Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Wootton When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Wootton "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Wootton
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Wootton "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Wootton
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Wootton Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Wootton
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Wootton And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Wootton
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Wootton "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wootton
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 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Wootton Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Wootton
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Wootton 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 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Wootton
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Wootton In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Wootton
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 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Wootton "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Wootton
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Wootton One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Wootton
