Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain West Greece The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells West Greece
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) West Greece "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li West Greece
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 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason West Greece To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had West Greece
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale West Greece The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) West Greece
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) West Greece Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau West Greece
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken West Greece MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell West Greece
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 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 West Greece You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) West Greece
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon West Greece "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) West Greece
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods West Greece Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone 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 West Greece
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal West Greece You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney West Greece
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw West Greece Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') West Greece
