If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Newspapers We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Newspapers
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Newspapers Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Newspapers
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Newspapers At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Newspapers
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Newspapers The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Newspapers
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Newspapers "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Newspapers
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Newspapers This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Newspapers
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Newspapers "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Newspapers
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Newspapers "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Newspapers
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler 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 "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Newspapers Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Newspapers
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Newspapers Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Newspapers
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Newspapers Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Newspapers
