Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel East Linton Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin East Linton
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) East Linton To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables 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 I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner East Linton
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr East Linton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide East Linton
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry 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 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni East Linton Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde East Linton
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White East Linton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf East Linton
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev East Linton The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi East Linton
"Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince East Linton We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde East Linton
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz East Linton I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) East Linton
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 I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) East Linton The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) East Linton
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni East Linton "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little East Linton
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder East Linton "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) East Linton
