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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Prestwich "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Prestwich
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Prestwich If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Prestwich
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Prestwich Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Prestwich
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Prestwich Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Prestwich
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Prestwich "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Prestwich
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Prestwich There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Prestwich
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Prestwich Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Prestwich
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Prestwich I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Prestwich
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Prestwich All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Prestwich
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Prestwich To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Prestwich
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Prestwich "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Prestwich
