How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin 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 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Porth Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Porth
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Porth "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Porth
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) 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. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Porth If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Porth
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Porth He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "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) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Porth
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Porth After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Porth
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Porth "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Porth
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Porth Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Porth
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Porth The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Porth
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Porth Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Porth
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Porth "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Porth
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Porth blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Porth
