2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed N [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 N
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "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) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying N The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow N
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood N Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) N
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous N When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon N
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost N What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous N
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller N The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" N
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) N I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West N
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard N I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) N
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) N Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine N
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph N Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein N
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi N The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley N
