Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Animals Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. 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 Animals
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Animals It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Animals
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Animals Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Animals
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Animals Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Animals
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Animals Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Animals
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Animals 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 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Animals
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Animals 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Animals
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Animals If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Animals
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Animals "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Animals
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Animals "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Animals
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Animals There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Animals
