There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Mood "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "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 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 Mood
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Mood "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Mood
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mood A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Mood
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Mood Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Mood
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama 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 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Mood "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Mood
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Mood "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Mood
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Mood Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Mood
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Mood The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mood
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett 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 "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Mood "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mood
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Mood "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Mood
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Mood Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Mood
