You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) .. 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 Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University H The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') H
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves H Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde H
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung H How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward H
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford H Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde H
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "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 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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead H Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender H
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "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) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell H We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) H
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is a rest period between romances. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese H >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 Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde H
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous H For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner H
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov H I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe H
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi H "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) H
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud H Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat H
