When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Builders Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Builders
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Builders Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long My other wife is beautiful. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Builders
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 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Builders The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Builders
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Builders "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Builders
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Builders "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Builders
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Builders Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Builders
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Builders Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Builders
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Builders Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "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) Builders
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Builders "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Builders
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Builders "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Builders
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Builders "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Builders
