Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti 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" A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw By Region The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld By Region
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen By Region There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) By Region "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) By Region
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 baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) By Region I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd By Region
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived By Region blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius By Region
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover By Region You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley By Region
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood By Region "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner By Region
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman By Region
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W By Region I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) By Region
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) By Region Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers 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 There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne By Region
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm 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 By Region The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story By Region
