"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Monmouthshire A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Monmouthshire
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Monmouthshire And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Monmouthshire
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Monmouthshire A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Monmouthshire
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Monmouthshire When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Monmouthshire
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Monmouthshire The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Monmouthshire
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Monmouthshire "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Monmouthshire
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Monmouthshire Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Monmouthshire
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Monmouthshire No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Monmouthshire
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Monmouthshire The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Monmouthshire
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Monmouthshire Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Monmouthshire
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 The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Monmouthshire Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Monmouthshire
