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 All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz By County Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous By County
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign By County "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky By County
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) By County Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln By County
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) By County You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot By County
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler By County "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland By County
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett By County Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous By County
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) By County When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen By County
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra By County ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) By County
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright By County Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) By County
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) By County Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov By County
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) By County Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson By County
