Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "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) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Motoring "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Motoring
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Motoring To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 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 Motoring
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. 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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Motoring He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Motoring
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Motoring Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Motoring
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Motoring Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Motoring
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Motoring "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Motoring
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Motoring your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Motoring
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Motoring Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Motoring
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Motoring "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Motoring
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Motoring Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Motoring
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Motoring "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Motoring
