*mmddyyyy Sample Reminders
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!  27     Pay the mortgage!
R0128     Mom's Birthday February 5th
R0226     Alyssa's Birthday March 4th
R0501     Daryl's Birthday May 9th
R0917     Dad's Brithday September 23rd
R0310     Taxes in one month!
R0414     Taxes due tomorrow!
R0415     Taxes due by midnite!
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* These sayings come from four sources:
* The Speaker's Desk Book (1937)
* Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1944)
* A program called HI (no author or history known)
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Q0101     Minds are like parachutes, they only work when open.
Q0102     Every Titanic has its iceberg.
Q0103     An honest politician: One who stays bought.
Q0104     A closed mouth gathers no foot.
Q0105     What`s the most popular form of birth control?   The headache.
Q0106     Clean mind, clean body: take your pick.
Q0107     Whatever advice you give, be brief.
Q0108     He who laughs last probably doesn`t understand the joke.
Q0109     Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
Q0110     If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.
Q0111     When in doubt, make it sound convincing.
Q0112     A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
Q0113     When all else fails, read the directions.
Q0114     If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Q0115     If reality wants to get in touch with me, it knows where I am.
Q0116     When forced to choose between two evils, try the new one.
Q0201     Every human being comes equipped with a brain at no extra cost.
Q0202     To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
Q0203     To save one life is better than to build a seven story pagoda.
Q0204     To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult, to criticize the competent.
Q0205     There`s so much to say but your eyes keep interrupting me.
Q0206     There`s at least one fool in every married couple.
Q0207     There is always someone worse off than yourself.
Q0208     The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf.
Q0209     The weed of crime bears bitter fruit.
Q0210     Statistics are often used as a drunk uses a light pole: For support rather than illumination.
Q0301     The plural of spouse is spice.
Q0302     The only rose without thorns is friendship.
Q0303     The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn`t.
Q0304     The light of a hundred stars doesn't equal the light of the moon.
Q0305     He who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn`t been asleep.
Q0306     The hardest thing to do is to disquise your feelings when sending a large crowd of visiting relatives home.
Q0307     The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Q0308     The best prophet of the future is the past.
Q0309     The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Q0310     The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive.
Q0401     The average woman would rather be beautiful than smart because the average man can see better than he can think.
Q0402     That must be wonderful!  I dont understand it at all.
Q0403     Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow.
Q0404     Someone is speaking well of you.
Q0405     Some rise by sin and some by virtue fall.
Q0406     No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Q0426     Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Q0501     Some men are discovered; others are found out.
Q0502     Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Q0503     When all is said and done, too many people keep on saying and doing.
Q0504     Fame is proof that people are gullible.
Q0505     We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Q0506     No really great man every thought himself so.
Q0507     There is as much greatness in acknowledging a good turn, as there is in doing it.
Q0508     Beware of hip and rum drivers.
Q0509     Home to a young boy is merely a filling station.
Q0510     Early to rise and ditto to bed, make a man healthy, but socially dead.
Q0511     Beware the man who can't be bothered with details.
Q0512     Nothing beats reading a good book when there is work to do.
Q0513     While forbidden fruit may be sweeter, it spoils faster.
Q0514     You're smart when you only believe half of what you hear, Wise is when you know which half to believe.
Q0515     A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Q0528     When seeking love give nothing, Having found love give all.
Q0530     In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the bow, Pleasure at the helm.
Q0531     If she had lumbago she couldn't sing a note.
Q0601     Show affection, it will probably meet with pleasant response.
Q0602     Share your happiness with others today.
Q0603     She`s learned to say things with her eyes that others waste time trying to put into words.
Q0604     Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth.
Q0605     People will buy anything that`s one to a customer.
Q0606     Ours is a world where people don`t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Q0607     One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true.
Q0608     One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.
Q0609     Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.
Q0610     Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Q0611     Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Q0612     No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
Q0613     Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
Q0614     Mistakes are oft the stepping stones to failure.
Q0615     Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Q0616     Might as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca.
Q0617     Matrimony is the root of all evil.
Q0618     Many a family tree needs trimming.
Q0619     Man and wife make one fool.
Q0620     Man`s horizons are bounded by his vision.
Q0621     Make new friends but keep the old, One is silver the other gold.
Q0622     Make a wish, it might come true.
Q0623     Love is sentimental measles.
Q0624     Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Q0625     Lend money to a bad debtor and he will hate you.
Q0626     Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
Q0627     Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Q0628     The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Q0629     May the force be with you.
Q0630     It`s a poor workman who blames his tools.
Q0701     It`s clever, but is it art?
Q0702     It is far better to be deceived than to be undeceived by those we love.
Q0703     It is Fortune, not wisdom that rules man`s life.
Q0704     The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Q0705     If you wish to succeed, consult three old people.
Q0706     If you make a mistake, immediately fix it to the best of your ability.
Q0707     If you continually give you will continually have.
Q0708     Quit work and play for once.
Q0709     If you always postpone pleasure you will never have it.
Q0710     I`ve given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Q0711     The orator speaks, with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Q0712     He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Q0713     He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Q0714     He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Q0715     He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose.
Q0716     He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another`s mishap.
Q0717     He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Q0718     Even a hawk is an eagle among crows.
Q0719     By following the good, you learn to be good.
Q0720     Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear through.
Q0721     An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
Q0722     The picture of health requires a happy frame of mind.
Q0723     All who would win joy must share it, happiness was born a twin.
Q0724     No one is so happy or sad as he imagines.
Q0725     Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.
Q0726     An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Q0727     He cannot rule the great who cannot rule the small.
Q0728     No facts are sacred, none are profane.
Q0729     Faith will not die while seed catalogs are printed.
Q0730     Public speaking takes a two minute idea, and a two hour vocabulary.
Q0731     All work and no play makes jack.  And lots of it.
Q0801     God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends.
Q0802     Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
Q0803     Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
Q0804     Everything bows to success, even grammar.
Q0805     Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment.
Q0806     Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.
Q0807     Cheap things are of no value, valuable things are not cheap.
Q0808     Behind every argument is someone`s ignorance.
Q0809     Beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.
Q0810     A wise man can see more from a the bottom of a well than a fool can see from a mountaintop.
Q0811     Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Q0812     Only the doctor can suffer from good health.
Q0813     Communism will work when love, not greed, inspires it.
Q0814     Democracy will continue as long as people have faith in the people they are going to elect next.
Q0815     The desire to work is confined to classified ads.
Q0816     God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
Q0817     Thrift is a wonderful virtue - in an ancestor.
Q0818     If we were intended to talk more than we hear, we'd have two mouths and only one ear.
Q0819     Better to be religious with your eloquence, than eloquent with your religion.
Q0820     Freedom has a thousand charms to show, that slaves, however content, will never know.
Q0821     The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our change.
Q0822     Of all the ills that men endure, hope is the only cheap and universal cure.
Q0823     If you bow at all, bow low.
Q0824     Toil is most pleasant when done.
Q0825     Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas any more.
Q0826     A minister says matrimony should be enduring.  It is.
Q0827     No man can serve two masters, yes-men can serve hundreds.
Q0828     A good man gone wrong is usually a bad man found out.
Q0829     Losing weight: the triumph of mind over platter.
Q0830     To get ahead and stay ahead, use your head.
Q0831     A fool and his money are invited everywhere.
Q0901     Do not clog intellect`s sluices with knowledge of questionable uses.
Q0902     Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won`t see his face.
Q0903     Creditors have much better memories than debtors.
Q0904     A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle.
Q0905     A plucked goose doesn`t lay golden eggs.
Q0906     Hearts will never be practical til they're unbreakable.
Q0907     They do not love that do not show their love.
Q0908     Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
Q0909     Honi soit qui mal y pense. (Shamed be he who thinks evil of it.)
Q0910     Ideals kill some men in politics, but politics kill more ideals in men.
Q0911     Ignorance is the mother of superstition.
Q0912     No woman should imitate men;  men are not worth it.
Q0913     At 18, I was ashamed of how ignorant my father was. At 21, I was amazed at how much he had learned in three years.
Q0914     Most campaign literature is an insult to intelligence. Sad that many never realize it.
Q0915     You can judge a man by how he keeps his golf score.
Q0916     America did not invent human rights, Human Rights invented America.
Q0917     The reason people blame things on previous generations? There's only one other choice!
Q0918     Inflation is when the buck doesn't stop anywhere.
Q0922     One disadvantage of having nothing to do: You can't stop and rest.
Q0923     Real love stories have no endings.
Q1001     Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Q1002     Justice delayed is justice denied.
Q1003     They know enough who know how to learn.
Q1004     The laborer is worthy of his hire, if his labor is.
Q1005     Love is blind, to everything except fat.
Q1006     A husband is the medicine that cures all the ills of girlhood.
Q1007     Pale ink beats a good memory.
Q1008     Would that government spent our money like it was their own.
Q1009     Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
Q1010     If you want the last word with a woman, apologize.
Q1011     Just because he's on the road, it doesn't mean his mind is.
Q1012     Death and taxes may always be with us, But at least death doesn't get any worse.
Q1101     A guy has to get fresh once in a while so a girl doesn't lose her confidence.
Q1102     I ain`t broke, but I`m badly bent.
Q1103     The best government teaches us to govern ourselves.
Q1104     The bigger the bankroll, the tighter the band around it.
Q1105     Are you a good witch, or are you a bad witch?
Q1106     Blessed are the peacemakers, they will never want for work.
Q1107     Bachelor's wives and spinster's children are always perfect.
Q1108     Better the shoulder to the wheel than the back to the wall.
Q1109     Whatever you have, spend less.
Q1110     In fashion be a reed in the wind, In principles be a rock in the stream.
Q1111     He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Q1112     The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Q1113     Learning music by reading about it, Is like making love by mail.
Q1114     Think you've got influence?  Try commanding someone else's dog.
Q1121     Character is what you know you are, Not what others think you are.
Q1125     Don't need a new religion, haven't used the old one up yet.
Q1126     There are two sides to every question, politicians take both.
Q1127     Politics is either passing the buck or passing the dough.
Q1128     To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Q1129     Never despair.  If you do, you work on in despair.
Q1130     Too many pray for peace with their fists clenched.
Q1201     Two wrongs do not make a right, it usually takes three or more.
Q1202     Lost interest? It`s so bad I`ve lost apathy.
Q1203     The greatest programming project of all took six days; on the seventh day the programmer rested.
Q1204     The only red menace in America is the sunburn.
Q1205     Every noble work is at first impossible.
Q1206     To reform a man, begin with his grandmother.
Q1207     No man's religion ever survives his morals.
Q1208     Who to himself is law, no law doth need.
Q1209     Selfishness is that vice we see in others, never in ourselves.
Q1210     Equality of the sexes leaves women standing on buses.
Q1211     Never borrow trouble, the interest is entirely too high.
Q1212     To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
Q1213     It is better to live rich than to die rich.
Q1223     Take a lesson from the weather: It pays no attention to criticism.
Q1228     No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.
Q1229     You are not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.