Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Regions "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 Regions
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Regions He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Regions
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Regions The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Regions
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Regions To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Regions
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Regions There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Regions
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Regions "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Regions
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Regions He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi 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.
-- Crowf Regions
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Regions The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Regions
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Regions We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Regions
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Regions I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Regions
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Regions Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Regions
