It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Shrewsbury There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Shrewsbury
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Shrewsbury 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Shrewsbury
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Shrewsbury Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Shrewsbury
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Shrewsbury We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Shrewsbury
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Shrewsbury The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Shrewsbury
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Shrewsbury Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Shrewsbury
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Shrewsbury Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Shrewsbury
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shrewsbury Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Shrewsbury
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Shrewsbury I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Shrewsbury
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Shrewsbury The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Shrewsbury
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Shrewsbury I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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 "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Shrewsbury
