We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Tolna County "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Tolna County
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Tolna County When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Tolna County
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Tolna County The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Tolna County
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Tolna County "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Tolna County
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Tolna County Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 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 Tolna County
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Tolna County >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Tolna County
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Tolna County Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Tolna County
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Tolna County Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Tolna County
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) Tolna County Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Tolna County
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) 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 Tolna County If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Tolna County
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Tolna County "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Tolna County
