Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln F If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, F
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "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) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln F A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All F
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) F And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. F
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making F "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde F
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) F I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman F
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. F May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) F
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) F "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold F
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois F 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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël F
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim F "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde F
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson F Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! F
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw F When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) F
