Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Wellesley, Arthur The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Wellesley, Arthur
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Wellesley, Arthur Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Wellesley, Arthur
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Wellesley, Arthur "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Wellesley, Arthur
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Wellesley, Arthur "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Wellesley, Arthur
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wellesley, Arthur A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Wellesley, Arthur
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wellesley, Arthur Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Wellesley, Arthur
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Wellesley, Arthur blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Wellesley, Arthur
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Wellesley, Arthur I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Wellesley, Arthur
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Wellesley, Arthur "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Wellesley, Arthur
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Wellesley, Arthur "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Wellesley, Arthur
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Wellesley, Arthur I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, 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 absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Wellesley, Arthur
