Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Pleven Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Pleven
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Pleven Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Pleven
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Pleven The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Pleven
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pleven A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Pleven
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pleven Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Pleven
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Pleven "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Pleven
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Pleven Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Pleven
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Pleven The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Pleven
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "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) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Pleven There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Pleven
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Pleven The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Pleven
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Pleven "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Pleven
