Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live My other wife is beautiful. Property I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Property
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 Property "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Property
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying 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) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "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) Property Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Property
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Property Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Property
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Property Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Property
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Property It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Property
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 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Property A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Property
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) 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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Property "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Property
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Property The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Property
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "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) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Property If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Property
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Property If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Property
