Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb By County "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud By County
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos By County It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) By County
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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 The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson By County There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) By County
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) 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. By County Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche By County
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time By County
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb By County Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War By County
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch By County The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde By County
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 By County There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) By County
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous By County "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, Alice in Wonderland Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) By County
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the By County Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung By County
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde By County At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) By County
