The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Y I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "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 Y
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Y The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Y
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams 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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Y I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Y
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Y Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Y
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Y "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Y
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Y Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Y
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Y Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Y
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Y "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Y
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Y I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Y
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Y Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Y
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Y Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Y
