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Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller 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 "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Edderton In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Edderton
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Edderton When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Edderton
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Edderton "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Edderton
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Edderton Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Edderton
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Edderton You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Edderton
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Edderton "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Edderton
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Edderton Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Edderton
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Edderton Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Edderton
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Edderton Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Edderton
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Edderton I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Edderton
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Edderton The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Edderton
