My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Security "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Security
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Security Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Security
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Security "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Security
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Security "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 Security
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Security A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Security
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Security "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) What's new? Most of my wife. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Security
"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 concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Security Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Security
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Security Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Security
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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Security 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 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Security
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Security To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Security
Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Security A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Security
