"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Specialities "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "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) Specialities
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Specialities I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Specialities
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Specialities "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Specialities
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Specialities Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Specialities
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Specialities "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Specialities
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Specialities Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Specialities
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Specialities The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Specialities
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Specialities Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Specialities
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Specialities I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury 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 Specialities
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Specialities "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Specialities
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Specialities No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Specialities
