The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Formby I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Formby
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde 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 Formby Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Formby
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Formby Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Formby
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Formby Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Formby
"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 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Formby Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Formby
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Formby "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Formby
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Formby There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Formby
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Formby If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Formby
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Formby Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Formby
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Formby Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Formby
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Formby "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Formby
