When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Clare In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 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 We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Clare
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Clare Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Clare
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Clare My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Clare
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Clare The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Clare
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Clare Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Clare
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Clare I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Clare
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Clare 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 The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Clare
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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 We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Clare The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Clare
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Clare I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Clare
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Clare Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Clare
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Clare Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Clare
