Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire B I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) B
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx B blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover B
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying B All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst B
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler B When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun B
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) B Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken B
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith B "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown B
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show B 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. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows B
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy B Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson B
"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) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca B "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx B
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx B 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 Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp B
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley B Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) B
