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 Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Diving Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Diving
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Diving Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Diving
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Diving Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Diving
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Diving He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Diving
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Diving Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Diving
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Diving I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Diving
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Diving The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Diving
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Diving Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Diving
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Diving There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Diving
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Diving All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Diving
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Diving "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Diving
