Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Chichester You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Chichester
"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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Chichester When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Chichester
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Chichester "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Chichester
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Chichester Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Chichester
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves My other wife is beautiful. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Chichester Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Chichester
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Chichester "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Chichester
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Chichester Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Chichester
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Chichester "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Chichester
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "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' "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Chichester "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Chichester
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Chichester "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Chichester
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 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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Chichester "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Chichester
