I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long London "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) London
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire London The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. London
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton London The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence London
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz London "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) London
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr London They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) London
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz London Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein London
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson London 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 Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin London
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld London "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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.
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blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm London Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) London
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain London When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown London
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg London Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) London
