If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier 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 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Aberdare A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Aberdare
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Aberdare "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 Aberdare
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Aberdare There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Aberdare
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Aberdare "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Aberdare
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Aberdare Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Aberdare
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Aberdare The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Aberdare
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian 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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Aberdare "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aberdare
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous 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 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Aberdare "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Aberdare
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Aberdare "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Aberdare
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Aberdare No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Aberdare
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Aberdare How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Aberdare
