"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke L The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) L
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen L 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 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung L
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein L "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake L
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "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 L Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev L
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi L Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott L
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf L Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce L
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) L I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous L
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 L One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) L
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren L The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West L
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins L "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Marriage is a rest period between romances. L
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) L Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman L
