"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Education The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Education
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Education
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Education "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Education
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Education
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Education Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. What's new? Most of my wife. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Education
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Education When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Education
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Education Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Education
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Education
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I .. 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 Education 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 A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Education
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Education A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem 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 Education
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "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') Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Education Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education
