"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Attractions Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
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I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings 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 You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Attractions Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Attractions
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Attractions "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Attractions
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Attractions We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Attractions Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Attractions
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Attractions Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Attractions
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Attractions 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 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Attractions
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Attractions "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Attractions
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Attractions Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Attractions
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Attractions "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Attractions
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Attractions You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Attractions
