By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Grimethorpe A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Grimethorpe
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Grimethorpe Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Grimethorpe
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Grimethorpe The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Man and wife make one fool. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Grimethorpe
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Grimethorpe Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner 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 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Grimethorpe
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Grimethorpe "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Grimethorpe
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Grimethorpe It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Grimethorpe
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Grimethorpe 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 Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grimethorpe
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Grimethorpe 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? It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Grimethorpe
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Grimethorpe "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Grimethorpe
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Grimethorpe Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Grimethorpe
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Grimethorpe It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Grimethorpe
