Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Politics "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Politics
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Politics Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Politics
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Politics The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Politics
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Politics "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Politics
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Politics In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Politics
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Politics "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 Politics
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Politics "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Politics
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Politics The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Politics
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Politics It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Politics
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Politics "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Politics
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Politics "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Politics
