Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with W In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson W
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) W In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley W
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese W The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) W
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault W An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde W
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud W Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) W
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) W "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a W
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "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) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) W Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West W
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie W The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen W
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen W To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. W
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous W In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley W
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling W Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) W
