Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Politics blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Politics
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Politics
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Politics "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Politics
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Politics My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Politics
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Politics "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Politics
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Politics Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Politics
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Politics Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Politics
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Politics Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Politics
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Politics Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Politics
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Politics "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Politics
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Politics Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Politics
