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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller What's new? Most of my wife. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ashtead "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Ashtead
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Ashtead The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Ashtead
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Ashtead The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Ashtead
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Ashtead "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Ashtead
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman 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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Ashtead The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Ashtead
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ashtead Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Ashtead
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Ashtead When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Ashtead
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Ashtead We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Ashtead
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Ashtead A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Ashtead
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Ashtead Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Ashtead
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Ashtead "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Ashtead
