Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Event Planning What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Event Planning
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Event Planning In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Event Planning
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Event Planning "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Event Planning
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Event Planning My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Event Planning
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 Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Event Planning The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Event Planning
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Event Planning "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Event Planning
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Event Planning A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Event Planning
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Event Planning Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Event Planning
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Event Planning Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Event Planning
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Event Planning "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Event Planning
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Event Planning And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Event Planning
