Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Z The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Z
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Z Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Z
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw My other wife is beautiful. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Z Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Z
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Z I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen 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 Z
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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 Z "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Z
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Z "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Z
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show 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 I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Z We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Z
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Z "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Z
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Z Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 Z
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Z My other wife is beautiful. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Z
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Z As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Z
