We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) F "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber F
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 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 F I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald F
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp F Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) F
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor F Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene F
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) F Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere F
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso F You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) F
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe F 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 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman F
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 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw F "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha F
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham F Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C F
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) F A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers F
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas F Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer F
