We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert DJs The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "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 "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert DJs Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) DJs
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie DJs The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) DJs
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia DJs "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller DJs
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney DJs In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain DJs
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "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) DJs Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf DJs
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) DJs 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 "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus DJs
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar DJs Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) DJs
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley DJs Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) DJs
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson DJs I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf DJs
"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous DJs Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock DJs
