"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "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 >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "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) I
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper 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 I Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber I
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I
"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) I I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France 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 I
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison I
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi ... 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
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short I The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I
