Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Princess Margaret A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Princess Margaret
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Princess Margaret "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Princess Margaret
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Princess Margaret Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Princess Margaret
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Princess Margaret Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Princess Margaret
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Princess Margaret Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Princess Margaret
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. 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 Princess Margaret If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Princess Margaret
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Princess Margaret All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Princess Margaret
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "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) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Princess Margaret I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Princess Margaret
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Princess Margaret Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Princess Margaret
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Princess Margaret "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 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 Princess Margaret
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Princess Margaret Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Princess Margaret
