You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Movies The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Movies
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Movies If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Movies
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Movies I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Movies
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Movies The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Movies
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Movies Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Movies
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Movies Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Movies
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Movies "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Movies
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Movies I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Movies
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Movies "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Movies
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Movies Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Movies
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Movies The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Movies
