"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Parks The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Parks
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Parks If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Parks
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Parks We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Parks
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Parks Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Parks
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Parks "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Parks
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Parks "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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 Parks
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Parks "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Parks
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Parks To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Parks
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Parks All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Parks You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Parks
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Parks Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Parks
