Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Ida-Virumaa There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Ida-Virumaa
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Ida-Virumaa "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Ida-Virumaa
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Ida-Virumaa "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ida-Virumaa
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Ida-Virumaa I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Ida-Virumaa
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "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) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Ida-Virumaa "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Ida-Virumaa
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Ida-Virumaa We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Ida-Virumaa
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Ida-Virumaa He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Ida-Virumaa
"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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Ida-Virumaa We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Ida-Virumaa
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Ida-Virumaa The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Ida-Virumaa
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Ida-Virumaa The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Ida-Virumaa
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Ida-Virumaa We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Ida-Virumaa
