The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Libraries The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Libraries
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Libraries "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Libraries
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Libraries An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Libraries
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Libraries Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Libraries
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Libraries Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Libraries
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Libraries "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Libraries
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Libraries "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) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Libraries
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Libraries My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Libraries
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Libraries The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Libraries
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Libraries We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Libraries
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Libraries Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) Libraries
