The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo L "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) L
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell L The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni L
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder L "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) L
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan L Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 L
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) L 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 Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) L
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) L "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman L
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor May you never leave your marriage alive. L "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) L
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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince L There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) L
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. 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 L People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone L
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) L Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous L
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill L "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills L
