Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz By Region The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins By Region
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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan By Region Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon By Region
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "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 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" By Region There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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 By Region
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson By Region The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) By Region
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson By Region I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) By Region
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to By Region Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams By Region
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' When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen By Region A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) By Region
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? By Region "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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner By Region
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) By Region "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "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) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) By Region
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) By Region "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz By Region
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) By Region A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming By Region
