Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Authors I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Authors
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Authors Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Authors
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 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 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Authors The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Authors
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Authors A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Authors
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Authors The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Authors
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Authors If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Authors
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Authors Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Authors
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard 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. Authors We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Authors
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Authors Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Authors
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Authors A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Authors
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Authors My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Authors
