Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody X History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard X
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) X Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck X
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali X 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes X
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale X "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder X
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game 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 X Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein X
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death 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 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay 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 X A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e X
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra X Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) X
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski X To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup X
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician X Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly 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 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) X
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais X We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that X
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein X People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) X
