"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "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) Mears Ashby Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Mears Ashby
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman 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 Mears Ashby Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Mears Ashby
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan 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 Mears Ashby I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Mears Ashby
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Mears Ashby Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Mears Ashby
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Mears Ashby "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Mears Ashby
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Mears Ashby Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Mears Ashby
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Mears Ashby "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Mears Ashby
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Mears Ashby "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. 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 Mears Ashby
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Mears Ashby "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) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Mears Ashby
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Mears Ashby He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Mears Ashby
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Mears Ashby "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Mears Ashby
