Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Mole Valley "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Mole Valley
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Mole Valley "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Mole Valley
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Mole Valley "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Mole Valley
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Mole Valley 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 Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Mole Valley
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "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) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Mole Valley Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Mole Valley
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Mole Valley Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Mole Valley
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Mole Valley "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Mole Valley
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Mole Valley Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Mole Valley
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Mole Valley Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Mole Valley
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Mole Valley If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Mole Valley
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Mole Valley When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Mole Valley
