Spinster: A bachelor's wife. If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Religion If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Religion
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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Religion "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Religion
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Religion We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Religion
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Religion "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Religion
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Religion "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Religion
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Religion "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Religion
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Religion
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Religion Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Religion
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Religion A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Religion
If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Religion Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Religion
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 executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Religion "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Religion
