Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Government Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Government
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Government My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Government "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Government
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 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. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Government Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Government
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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Government Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Government
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Government Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Government
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Government 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Government
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Government "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Government
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Government "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Government
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Government Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Government
