Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Outdoors "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Outdoors
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Outdoors No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Outdoors
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Outdoors I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Outdoors
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Outdoors "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Outdoors
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Outdoors It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Outdoors
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Outdoors Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Outdoors
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Outdoors I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Outdoors
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Outdoors What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Outdoors
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Outdoors "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Outdoors
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outdoors blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Outdoors
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Outdoors Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Outdoors
