Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Grodno 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 Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Grodno
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Grodno Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Grodno
"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) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Grodno "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Grodno
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Grodno Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Grodno
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Grodno "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Grodno
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Grodno I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Grodno
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Grodno What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Grodno
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Grodno Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Grodno
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Grodno Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Grodno
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Grodno Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Grodno
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Grodno If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Grodno
