I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Pentathalon It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Pentathalon
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Pentathalon Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Pentathalon
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Pentathalon We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Pentathalon
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "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) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Pentathalon I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Pentathalon
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Pentathalon I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "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 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pentathalon
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "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) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Pentathalon Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Pentathalon
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Pentathalon It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Pentathalon
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Pentathalon Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Pentathalon
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Pentathalon "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Pentathalon
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Pentathalon People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Pentathalon
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Pentathalon "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Pentathalon
