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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Localities If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Localities
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 "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) "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 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Localities The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Localities
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Localities Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Localities
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Localities And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Localities
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Localities To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Localities
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Localities What's new? Most of my wife. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Localities
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Localities The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Localities
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Localities Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Localities
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Localities Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Localities
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Localities Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Localities
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Localities "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Localities
