Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Taxis I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Taxis
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Taxis "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Taxis
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Taxis The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Taxis
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,
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Taxis "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes 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 Taxis
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Taxis No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Taxis
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Taxis Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Taxis
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Taxis The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Taxis
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "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) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Taxis All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Taxis
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Taxis "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Taxis
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Taxis Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Taxis
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Taxis "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Taxis
