A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy By Region "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) By Region
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale 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 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) By Region "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Region
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours By Region A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) By Region
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke By Region I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By Region
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken By Region What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) By Region
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) By Region The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous 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
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton By Region People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana By Region
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus By Region "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce By Region
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie By Region Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." By Region
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "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) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) By Region Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) By Region
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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 Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx By Region "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II By Region
