For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) North Yorkshire To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 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 North Yorkshire
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge North Yorkshire You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer North Yorkshire
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "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) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous North Yorkshire Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills North Yorkshire
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown North Yorkshire The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) North Yorkshire
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "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, ignorance, g Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde North Yorkshire Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford North Yorkshire
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle North Yorkshire My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason North Yorkshire
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn North Yorkshire "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) North Yorkshire
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? North Yorkshire Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) North Yorkshire
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams North Yorkshire My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 North Yorkshire
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Yorkshire The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover North Yorkshire
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. North Yorkshire Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings North Yorkshire
