Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Raglan Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer 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 The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Raglan
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Raglan If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Raglan
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Raglan "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Raglan
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Raglan Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Raglan
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Raglan Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Raglan
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Raglan How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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 Raglan
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Raglan A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Raglan
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Raglan "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Raglan
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Raglan However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Raglan
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Raglan The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Raglan
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Raglan He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Raglan
