Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain I
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I
