Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Taxis Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Taxis
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Taxis Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Taxis
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Taxis Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Taxis
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Taxis Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Taxis
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Taxis blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Taxis
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Taxis My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Taxis
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 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 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Taxis If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Taxis
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Taxis A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Taxis
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Taxis "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Taxis
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Taxis Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Taxis
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Taxis The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Taxis
