The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz D "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) D
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple D "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes D
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates D May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) D
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius D Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde D
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker D "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset D
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson D Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway D
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) 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 D I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived D
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) D We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed D
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey D You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe D
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton D Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton D
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb D If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. D
