The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Genealogy When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Genealogy
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Genealogy
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Genealogy Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Genealogy
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Genealogy The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Genealogy
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Genealogy "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Genealogy
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Genealogy Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Genealogy
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Genealogy 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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genealogy
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 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Genealogy "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Genealogy
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genealogy You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Genealogy
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Genealogy "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Genealogy
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Genealogy A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Genealogy
