Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Shopping All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Shopping
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Shopping If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Shopping
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Shopping 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 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Shopping
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Shopping Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Shopping
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman 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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Shopping "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Shopping
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Shopping I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Shopping
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Shopping blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Shopping
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Shopping Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Shopping
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Shopping Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Shopping
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Shopping "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Shopping
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Shopping 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 In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Shopping
