Quotes of the Week

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was this:
I had such friends."
                        -- W.B. Yeats

"I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me."
           -- Monica Lewinsky, in an interview on CNN's Larry King Live, theoretically
             talking about her Jenny Craig weight loss.

"All you need is love."
                       -- The Beatles. (The Valentine's Day Quote.)

"I don't mind when people talk about dumb blondes, because I know I'm not dumb, and because I know I'm not blonde."
                                -- Dolly Parton.

"It took something like this to make the Miss America Pageant look good to me."
       -- Patricia Ireland, NOW President, talking about the Fox TV show "Who Wants to
           Marry A Millionaire?"

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that really matter."
                    -- Marlene Dietrich.

An Irish Blessing: "Here's to this house: may the roof above it never fall in, and may the friends gathered  below it never fall out." 
                      (The St. Patrick's Day Quote.)

"Half of knowing what you want is knowing what you have to give up to get it."
                                        -- Sidney Howard

"If you want to get a busy woman to relax, forget the martinis and the fancy dinner.
Clean her house."
           Joan Ryan, San Francisco Chronicle Columnist

"What's next year's winner doing now? Practicing."
                                    -- L.M. Boyd

"Do we really want this child raised by guys stupid enough to get into a hostage situation with Janet Reno?"
            -- Comedian Bill Maher, on the Elian Gonzalez saga

Q: "What's the Australian Man's idea of foreplay?"
  A: "You Awake?"
                      ---  Belinda Luscombe, Australian writer

"A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person who makes leaning unneccessary."
        -- Dorothy Canfield Fisher. (The Mother's Day Quote.)

"What should teen-agers never forget? A simple acronym: GEM. Guilt Equals Money. Make your parents feel guilty and your financial possibilities are limitless."
    --- Daria, MTV Cartoon Character.

"It is sad to grow old, but quite nice to ripen."
            Brigitte Bardot.

"Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it."
   -- Comedian George Carlin.

"They've become infomercials. And bad ones."
  -- Comedian Bill Maher, talking about the GOP and Democratic naitonal conventions.

"Motherhood is a way of life, chosen in great ignorance, and the bedrock of much of what we are, and will become."
    -- Columnist Anna Quindlen.

"Book stores are like bars for people who read."
               -- Independent Bookseller, San Francisco.

" Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
              -- Commedian Billy Crystal.

"It's a cardinal rule of politics: Never get caught it bed with a dead woman or a live man."
    --- J.R. Ewing, character, "Dallas" TV show.

" Courage without Wisdom is Foolishness."
   Jackie Chan, Action Movie Star.