He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses By County Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen By County
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides By County Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner By County
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni By County I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) By County
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson By County They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) By County
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. By County Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and By County
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 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 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) By County One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) By County
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. By County I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u By County
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) By County 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 "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV By County
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( By County The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By County
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn By County Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) By County
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) By County The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter By County
