The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co News and Media
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper News and Media If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James News and Media
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) News and Media "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) News and Media
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone News and Media If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) News and Media
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "'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) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous News and Media Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) News and Media 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 It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) News and Media "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. News and Media
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around News and Media I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) News and Media
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) News and Media I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown News and Media
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe News and Media I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison News and Media
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers News and Media Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides News and Media
