Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Farndon Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Farndon
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Farndon "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Farndon A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Farndon
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Farndon I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Farndon
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Farndon Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Farndon
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Farndon "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Farndon
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Farndon There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Farndon
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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. Farndon The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Farndon
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 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Farndon Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Farndon
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Farndon Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Farndon
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Farndon Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Farndon
