"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens 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 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Pets The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Pets
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Pets I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Pets
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Pets "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." "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 We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Pets
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Pets "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Pets
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you never leave your marriage alive. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Pets .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Pets
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Pets "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Pets
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Pets It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Pets
"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) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Pets Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Pets
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Pets Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Pets
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Pets "... 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) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Pets
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Pets Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "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 Pets
