I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn By Region 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 He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake By Region
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin By Region Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig By Region
"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 am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack By Region Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) By Region
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley By Region Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland By Region
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant By Region Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) By Region
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem By Region Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein By Region
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) By Region "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne By Region
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) By Region You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George By Region
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw By Region Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea By Region
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous By Region Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time By Region
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch By Region Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson By Region
