Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Animal "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Animal
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Animal Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 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 The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Animal
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Animal "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Animal
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Animal "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Animal
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Animal If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "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) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Animal
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 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Animal Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Animal
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Animal We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Animal
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Animal "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Animal
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Animal There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Animal
What's new? Most of my wife. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Animal Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Animal
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Animal We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Animal
