A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Q In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Q
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "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) Q Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Q
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon 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" The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Q Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Q
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Q The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Q
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 Q Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Q
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Q Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Q
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Q Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Q
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr 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 Q To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Q
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) 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 Q "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Q
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Q When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "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) Q
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Q We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Q
