A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Religion "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Religion
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Religion Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Religion
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Religion >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Religion
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Religion "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) 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) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Religion
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Religion "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) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Religion
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "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) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Religion To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Religion
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Religion Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Religion
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Religion "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Religion
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Religion "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Religion
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Religion "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Religion
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Religion Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Religion
