The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Cricket Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Cricket
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Cricket "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Cricket
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Cricket There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "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 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Cricket
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Cricket The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Cricket
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Cricket Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Cricket
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Cricket When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cricket
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Cricket If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Cricket
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Cricket I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Cricket
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Cricket "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Cricket
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Cricket And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Cricket
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Cricket It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cricket
