"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Kinloss The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kinloss
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Kinloss Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kinloss
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Kinloss Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kinloss
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey 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 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kinloss Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Kinloss
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Kinloss A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Kinloss
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Kinloss Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Kinloss
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Kinloss You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Kinloss
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Kinloss I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Kinloss
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Kinloss For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Kinloss
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Kinloss The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Kinloss
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Kinloss And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Kinloss
