"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde E The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel E
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire E I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life E
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V E Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) E
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game E I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) E
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "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 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh E "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia E
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous E Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov E
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe E "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) E
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "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, E "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln E
"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil E "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th E
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 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. E "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns E
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President E Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin E
