There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder 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 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Personal Pages
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Personal Pages An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Personal Pages
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Personal Pages People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) 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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Personal Pages Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Personal Pages
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Personal Pages Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Personal Pages
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "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 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Personal Pages I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Personal Pages
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Personal Pages If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Personal Pages
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Personal Pages "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Personal Pages
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) 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 Personal Pages "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Personal Pages
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Personal Pages It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Personal Pages
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Personal Pages A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Personal Pages
