Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Shipping "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Shipping
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Shipping There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Shipping
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Shipping People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Shipping
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Shipping An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Shipping
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Shipping Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Shipping
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Shipping If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Shipping
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 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Shipping Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Shipping
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Shipping "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Shipping
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb 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 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Shipping Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Shipping
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Shipping Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shipping
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Shipping "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Shipping
