He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Broad Haven Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Broad Haven
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Broad Haven Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as What's new? Most of my wife. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Broad Haven
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Broad Haven Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Broad Haven
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Broad Haven It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Broad Haven
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Broad Haven Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Broad Haven
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Broad Haven The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Broad Haven
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Broad Haven The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Broad Haven
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Broad Haven The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Broad Haven
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Broad Haven Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Broad Haven
"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) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Broad Haven It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Broad Haven
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Broad Haven A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Broad Haven
