Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Y There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Y
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Y "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Y
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Y Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Y
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Y Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Y
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "... 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) Y "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Y
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Y Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Y
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Y The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Y
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous 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 "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Y "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Y
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Y Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Y
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "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) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Y "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Y
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Y 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Y
