Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Cavendish, William "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Cavendish, William
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cavendish, William Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 Cavendish, William
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Cavendish, William Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Cavendish, William
"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) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Cavendish, William It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Cavendish, William
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Cavendish, William They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Cavendish, William
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer 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 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman 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 way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cavendish, William The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Cavendish, William
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Cavendish, William The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Cavendish, William
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cavendish, William Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cavendish, William
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Cavendish, William Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "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 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cavendish, William
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Cavendish, William "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 In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Cavendish, William
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Cavendish, William "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Cavendish, William
