Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Bradfield Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Bradfield
"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..." ( The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Bradfield A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Bradfield
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Bradfield The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Bradfield
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Bradfield I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Bradfield
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Bradfield Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Bradfield
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Bradfield It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Bradfield
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "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) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Bradfield The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bradfield
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Bradfield Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Bradfield
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Bradfield I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli May you never leave your marriage alive. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Bradfield
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Bradfield "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Bradfield
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Bradfield "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Bradfield
