We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry 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 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Upton You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Upton
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Upton "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Upton
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Upton "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) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Upton
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Upton Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Upton
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Upton "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Upton
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Upton You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Upton
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Upton Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Upton
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "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) "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) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Upton Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Upton
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Upton "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) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Upton
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Upton Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "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 Upton
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Upton Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Upton
