Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 West Fjords Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) West Fjords
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) West Fjords Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray West Fjords
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx .. 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 West Fjords Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars West Fjords
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. West Fjords Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) West Fjords
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese 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 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands 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 West Fjords Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke West Fjords
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller West Fjords Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous West Fjords
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt West Fjords Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. West Fjords
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) West Fjords "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) West Fjords
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin 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 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson West Fjords Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be West Fjords
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West West Fjords "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith West Fjords
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein West Fjords There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married West Fjords
