Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead News and Media We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort News and Media
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "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) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses News and Media Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides News and Media
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is 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 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup News and Media "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer News and Media
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show News and Media "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. News and Media
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "'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) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) News and Media Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) News and Media
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words News and Media The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer News and Media
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) News and Media
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw News and Media Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" News and Media
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard News and Media Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. News and Media
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan News and Media
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) News and Media Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
