A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Armthorpe Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Armthorpe
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Armthorpe He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Armthorpe
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Armthorpe In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Armthorpe
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Armthorpe Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Armthorpe
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Armthorpe Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little May you never leave your marriage alive. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Armthorpe
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Armthorpe Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Armthorpe
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Armthorpe Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Armthorpe
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Armthorpe "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Armthorpe
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Armthorpe For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Armthorpe
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Armthorpe The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Armthorpe
"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) 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) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Armthorpe I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Armthorpe
