I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. R He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake R
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray R "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 R
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe R Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx R
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup R Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery R
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) R Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe R
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde R "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr R
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor R Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins R
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim R What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi R
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) R Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) R
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald R Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow R
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 R I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte R
