Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) 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 Politics Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Politics
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Politics "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Politics
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "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 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Politics The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Politics
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Politics I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Politics
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Politics If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Politics
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Politics
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Politics
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Politics I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Politics
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Politics The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Politics
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Politics Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Politics
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Politics There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado What's new? Most of my wife. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Politics
