blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Askrigg A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Askrigg
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Askrigg If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Askrigg
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Askrigg If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Askrigg
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Askrigg All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull 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 Askrigg
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Askrigg Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Askrigg
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Askrigg LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Askrigg
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Askrigg "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Askrigg
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Askrigg "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Askrigg
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Askrigg There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Askrigg
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Askrigg And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Askrigg
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Askrigg All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Askrigg
