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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Children's Camps "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Children's Camps
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Children's Camps Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Children's Camps
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Children's Camps If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Children's Camps
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Children's Camps Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Children's Camps
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Children's Camps Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Children's Camps
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Children's Camps The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Children's Camps
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Children's Camps People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Children's Camps
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Children's Camps "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Children's Camps
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Children's Camps Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Children's Camps
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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Children's Camps Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Children's Camps
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie 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 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Children's Camps "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Children's Camps
