"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman West Yorkshire A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx West Yorkshire
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) West Yorkshire "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries 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 West Yorkshire
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) West Yorkshire Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based West Yorkshire
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers West Yorkshire University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show West Yorkshire
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All West Yorkshire "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke West Yorkshire
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi West Yorkshire When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats West Yorkshire
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp West Yorkshire Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) West Yorkshire
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) West Yorkshire Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason West Yorkshire
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV West Yorkshire Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) West Yorkshire
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. West Yorkshire In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb 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 West Yorkshire
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) West Yorkshire "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 West Yorkshire
