I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Animals Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Animals
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Animals I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Animals
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Animals An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Animals
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) 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, Animals "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Animals
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Animals We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Animals
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Animals "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Animals
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "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 "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) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Animals "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Animals
A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Animals If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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"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) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Animals Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Animals
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Animals "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Animals
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee 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 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Animals "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Animals
