It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken West Farndon If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher West Farndon
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr West Farndon I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein West Farndon
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte West Farndon The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic West Farndon
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost West Farndon I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday West Farndon
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin West Farndon You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry West Farndon
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell West Farndon Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e West Farndon
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "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." All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde West Farndon "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings West Farndon
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel West Farndon I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) West Farndon
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata West Farndon Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy West Farndon
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard 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 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde West Farndon 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, He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery West Farndon
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau West Farndon "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde West Farndon
