And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Castle Bromwich If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Castle Bromwich
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Castle Bromwich Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Castle Bromwich
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Castle Bromwich "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Castle Bromwich
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Castle Bromwich To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Castle Bromwich
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Castle Bromwich Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Castle Bromwich
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Castle Bromwich "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Castle Bromwich
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland 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 Castle Bromwich "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Castle Bromwich
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Castle Bromwich Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Castle Bromwich
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Castle Bromwich It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Castle Bromwich
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Castle Bromwich "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Castle Bromwich
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Castle Bromwich "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Castle Bromwich
