"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Running "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 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Running
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Running Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Running
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Running "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Running
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "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 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Running Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Running
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Running The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël 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) Running
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Running Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Running
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Running "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Running
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Running Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Running
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Running The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Running
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Running Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Running
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Running Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Running
