Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Y You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Y
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Y "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Y
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey 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 Y Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Y
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "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, In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Y blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Y
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Y Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Y
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Y Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Y
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Y "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Y
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Y Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Y
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Y A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Y
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Y Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Y
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Y This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Y
