No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Y The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Y
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Y "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Y
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Y Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Y
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Y blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Y
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Y In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Y
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Y "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Y
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. 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 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom 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 Y "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Y
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Y "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Y
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Y "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Y
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Y Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi 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 Y
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Y Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Y
