Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." V 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 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 V
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw V blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates V
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman V If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett V
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life May you never leave your marriage alive. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work V The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln V
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan V Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend V
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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, "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton V You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin V
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia V Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) V
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx V Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton V
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde V Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy V
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) V Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) V
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) V 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo V
