"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne B No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac B
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea B I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 B
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) B If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous B
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying B The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre B
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland B Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko B
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover 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 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel B When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) B
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler B Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) B
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) B "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) B
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry 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 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott B blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( 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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) B
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) B "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf B
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, B And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy B
