"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Northern Ireland The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Northern Ireland
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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 My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Northern Ireland Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Northern Ireland
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Northern Ireland Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Northern Ireland
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Northern Ireland I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Northern Ireland
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Northern Ireland No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Northern Ireland
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Northern Ireland Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Northern Ireland
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Northern Ireland I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Northern Ireland
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Northern Ireland The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Northern Ireland
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Northern Ireland Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Northern Ireland
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Northern Ireland "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Northern Ireland
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Northern Ireland 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 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Northern Ireland
