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 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Montgomery My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Montgomery
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 "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Montgomery Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Montgomery
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Montgomery Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Montgomery
"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) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Montgomery A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Montgomery
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Montgomery Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Montgomery
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Montgomery When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Montgomery
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Montgomery Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Montgomery
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Montgomery When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Montgomery
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Montgomery "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Montgomery
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Montgomery All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Montgomery
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Montgomery Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Montgomery
