The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Military Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Military
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student 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 Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Military Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Military
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Military If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Military
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Military The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Military
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Military "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Military
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Military Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Military
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Military You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Military
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "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) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Military Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Military
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Military The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Military
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Military Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Military
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Military It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Military
