Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Cheadle It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Cheadle
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Cheadle Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cheadle
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Cheadle "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Cheadle
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Cheadle "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Cheadle
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Cheadle I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Cheadle
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Cheadle Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Cheadle
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Cheadle When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Cheadle
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Cheadle Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Cheadle
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Cheadle We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Cheadle
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Cheadle To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Cheadle
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Cheadle Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Cheadle
