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 If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Regions Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Regions
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 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Regions History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Man and wife make one fool. Regions
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Regions My other wife is beautiful. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Regions
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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 I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Regions The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Regions
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Regions "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Regions
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Regions blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "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 Regions
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Regions A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Regions
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Regions Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Regions
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Regions The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Regions
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Regions A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein 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. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Regions
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Regions Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Regions
