"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Bury "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Bury
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Bury Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Bury
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Bury "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Bury
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Bury Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Bury
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Bury Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Bury
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 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
bre My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Bury Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Bury
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Bury Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Bury
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Bury Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Bury
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Bury Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Bury
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Bury The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Bury
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Bury Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Bury
