The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Coseley Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Coseley
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Coseley Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Marriage is a rest period between romances. Coseley
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Coseley "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Coseley
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Coseley Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Coseley
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Coseley Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Coseley
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Coseley There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Coseley
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Coseley Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Coseley
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Coseley "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Coseley
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel 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 Coseley "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Coseley
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Coseley This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Coseley
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Coseley Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Coseley
