"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Kingswinford People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Kingswinford
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Kingswinford Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Kingswinford
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Kingswinford Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Kingswinford
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Kingswinford I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Kingswinford
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Kingswinford You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Kingswinford
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Kingswinford 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 I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Kingswinford
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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" That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Kingswinford "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Kingswinford
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "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 The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Kingswinford Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) 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 Kingswinford
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett 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 Kingswinford In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Kingswinford
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "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 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Kingswinford Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Kingswinford
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Kingswinford "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Kingswinford
