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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Chiseldon "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Chiseldon
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Chiseldon We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Chiseldon
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Chiseldon I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Chiseldon
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Chiseldon "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Chiseldon
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Chiseldon "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Chiseldon
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chiseldon And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Chiseldon
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Chiseldon Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Chiseldon
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Chiseldon The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Chiseldon
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Chiseldon "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Chiseldon
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Chiseldon Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Chiseldon
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Chiseldon Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Chiseldon
