When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr U A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin U
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar U You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) U
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger U "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach U
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli U Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West U
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) U "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn U
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb U The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur U
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray U When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) U
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy U Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker U
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier U I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller 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 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) U
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw U "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead U
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green U "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) U
