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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

Anne Tyler

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You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.


-Monica Seles

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My life is like a zombie movie! I survive game after game after game, but the football just keeps coming! The only way to stop team sports is to aim for the head.

Matt Milby,

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This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.


-Djuna Barnes

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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

-Albert Einstein

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Nothing fails like success.

Gerald Nachman

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.


-Salvador Dali

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Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

Louis XIV

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They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.


- William S. Burroughs:

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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

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The proper study of mankind is woman.


- Henry Brooks Adams

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The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

- Unknown

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People think they know you. They know the things about you that you have forgotten.


- Mick Jagger

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W. H. Auden

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I sent my flowers across the hall to Mrs Nixon but her husband remembered what a Democrat I am and sent them back.


Bette Davis

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Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

- Ed Gardner

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Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.


Emily Dickinson

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I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

Dan Quayle

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I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.


- Maya Lin

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The world is my lobster.

Henry J. Tillman

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.


-Lord Byron :biggrin:

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"The dishes of the present day are very light, and they have a particular delicacy and perfume. The secret has been discovered of enabling us to eat more and to eat better, as also to digest more rapidly....The new cookery is conductive to health, to good temper, and to long life....Who could enumerate all the dishes of the new cuisine? It is an absolutely new idiom. I have tasted viands prepared in so many ways and fashioned with such art that I could not imagine what they were."

Louis Sebastien Mercier

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All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.


Ernest Hemingway

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Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

National Lampoon

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Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.


Shelley Winters

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My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?


-Fran Lebowitz

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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.


-Napoleon Bonaparte

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My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels / we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight.

- Tom Hanks

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"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late."

Henny Youngman

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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late ?


-Lewis Carroll

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“It's never too late to give up our prejudices.”
Henry David Thoreau

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.


-Albert Einstein

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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White

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If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.


-Abraham Lincoln

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"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

Blaise Pascal

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When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.


Liberty Hyde Bailey