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- If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?
- Judy Tenuta
- The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- You'll NEED someone to love while you're looking for someone TO love.
- Selagh Delaney
- Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.
- Henry Albert Ben, _The Second Law_
- Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength.
- Corrie ten Boom
- Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
- Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu
- There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
- Niccolo Machiavelli "The Prince" 1532
- Strange how the older generations can't program a VCR if their life depended on it, but they managed to operate the climate contol system of their 1958 Ramblers, which consisted of six unmarked knobs, one labeled "AirFloMatic" in unreadable cursive script, and four levers underneath the dash, which you had to turn, then pull.
- Dan Tasman
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