We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882 Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900) If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. Beryl Pfizer Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there. Mickey Friedman I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. George Bernard Shaw Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. Dorothy Parker, speaking of Katharine Hepburn US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967) Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. Baltasar Gracian It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston Churchill 32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. Dave Barry US columnist & humorist (1947 - ) To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so. Robert Orben |