It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Newspapers All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Newspapers
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Newspapers "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Newspapers
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Newspapers "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Newspapers
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Newspapers It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Newspapers
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Newspapers There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Newspapers
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Newspapers "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Newspapers
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Newspapers "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Newspapers
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Newspapers I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Newspapers
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Newspapers 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 die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Newspapers
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Newspapers Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Newspapers
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Newspapers Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Newspapers
