Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Mountain Ash Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Mountain Ash
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Mountain Ash Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Mountain Ash
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Mountain Ash "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Mountain Ash
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Mountain Ash "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Mountain Ash
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mountain Ash Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Mountain Ash
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Mountain Ash I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Mountain Ash
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Mountain Ash "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Mountain Ash
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Mountain Ash "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Mountain Ash
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Mountain Ash "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Mountain Ash
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Mountain Ash All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Mountain Ash
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge 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 Mountain Ash "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Mountain Ash
