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I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Politics Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Politics
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Politics
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen 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. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Politics "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Politics
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Politics A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Politics
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Politics "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Politics
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Politics Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Politics
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Politics The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Politics
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Politics "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Politics
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "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) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Politics "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Politics
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Politics the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Politics
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Politics
