Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Pontycymer The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Pontycymer
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Pontycymer "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Pontycymer
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Pontycymer When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pontycymer
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Pontycymer Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Pontycymer
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Pontycymer Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Pontycymer
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Pontycymer "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Pontycymer
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Pontycymer I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Pontycymer
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Pontycymer Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Pontycymer
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Pontycymer Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Pontycymer
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Pontycymer "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Pontycymer
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Pontycymer The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Pontycymer
