Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Serifos It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Serifos
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Serifos "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Serifos
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Serifos "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Serifos
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Serifos A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Serifos
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Serifos Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Serifos
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Serifos Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Serifos
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Serifos The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Serifos
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Serifos It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Serifos
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Serifos He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Serifos
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Serifos Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Serifos
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Serifos The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow 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 Serifos
