The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Hazel Grove The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia 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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Hazel Grove
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Hazel Grove There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Hazel Grove
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Hazel Grove To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Hazel Grove
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Hazel Grove It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hazel Grove
"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) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Hazel Grove Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Hazel Grove
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Hazel Grove The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Hazel Grove
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Hazel Grove Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Hazel Grove
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Hazel Grove Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Hazel Grove
"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) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Hazel Grove Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Hazel Grove
"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.) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Hazel Grove If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Hazel Grove
"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 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Hazel Grove If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Hazel Grove
