It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "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) Modern Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Modern
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Modern "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Modern
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President 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 I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Modern More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Modern
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Modern Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Modern
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Modern Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Modern
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Modern "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Modern
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Modern "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Modern
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Modern Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Modern
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Modern No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Modern
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Modern My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Modern
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Modern "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Modern
