We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Drome A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Drome
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Drome "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Drome
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Drome [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Drome
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Drome Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Drome
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Drome "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Drome
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Drome "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Drome
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Drome What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Drome
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Drome I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy 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 Drome
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Drome Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Drome
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Drome And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Drome
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Drome 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 The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado 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 Drome
