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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "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) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Organisations "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Organisations
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Organisations I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Organisations
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Organisations Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Organisations
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Organisations "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I 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 Organisations
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Organisations Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Organisations
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Organisations "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Organisations
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Organisations For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Organisations
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Organisations The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Marriage is a rest period between romances. Organisations
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Organisations When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Organisations
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Organisations "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Organisations
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Organisations The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Organisations
