The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Care Homes My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Care Homes
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Care Homes A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Care Homes
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Care Homes Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Care Homes
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Care Homes Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Care Homes
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "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..." ( "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Care Homes Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Care Homes
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Care Homes "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Care Homes
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Care Homes We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Care Homes
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Care Homes "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Care Homes
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Care Homes "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Care Homes
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Care Homes We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Care Homes
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Care Homes Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Care Homes
