Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Outdoors "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Outdoors
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Outdoors Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Outdoors
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Outdoors Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Outdoors
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Outdoors And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Outdoors
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Outdoors The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Outdoors
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Outdoors University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outdoors
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Outdoors "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "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) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Outdoors
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Outdoors What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Outdoors
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Outdoors It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Outdoors
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Outdoors Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Outdoors
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry 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 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Outdoors "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Outdoors
