Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) DJs Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." DJs
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 DJs Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin DJs
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from DJs You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) DJs
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley DJs Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle DJs
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 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson DJs "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings DJs
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley DJs My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain DJs
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) DJs The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov DJs
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West DJs It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) DJs
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf DJs In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) DJs
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson DJs Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous DJs
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( DJs Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod DJs
