I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Guides and Directories The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Guides and Directories
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Guides and Directories
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst 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 Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Guides and Directories "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 Guides and Directories
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Guides and Directories
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Guides and Directories
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Guides and Directories People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Guides and Directories I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Guides and Directories Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Guides and Directories
