"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Cabins There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Cabins
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Cabins Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Cabins
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Cabins "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Cabins
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "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-) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Cabins My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Cabins
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Cabins "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Cabins
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom 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 Cabins "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Cabins
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Cabins The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Cabins
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Cabins Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Cabins
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Cabins "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Cabins
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Cabins Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Cabins
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) 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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi 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 Cabins "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Cabins
