"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Attractions And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Attractions
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Attractions Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Attractions
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Attractions In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Attractions
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Attractions A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Attractions
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Attractions We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Attractions
"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) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Attractions I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Attractions
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Attractions 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attractions
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Attractions "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Attractions
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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Attractions Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Attractions
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Attractions "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Attractions
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Attractions Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Attractions
