Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 1974 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 1974
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana 1974 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 1974
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, 1974 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 1974
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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt 1974 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 1974
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford 1974 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin 1974
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. 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 The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb 1974 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 1974
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless 1974 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 1974
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito 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 1974 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST 1974
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken 1974 Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin 1974
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac 1974 He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan 1974
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper 1974 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde 1974
