Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Flachau "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Flachau
"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) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Flachau A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Flachau
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Flachau Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Flachau
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Flachau Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Flachau
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Flachau I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Flachau
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Flachau I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "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) Flachau
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Flachau "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Flachau
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Flachau "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) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Flachau
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Spinster: A bachelor's wife. You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Flachau It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Flachau
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Flachau War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Flachau
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Flachau Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Flachau
