When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. D My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland D
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee D "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) D
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell D When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) D
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer D Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel D
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) D "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan D
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama D Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins D
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words D Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables D
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln D I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber D
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer D To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) D
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage D "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) D
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson D If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words D
