No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Tubber Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Tubber
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 The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "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) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Tubber I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Tubber
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Tubber "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Tubber
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Tubber Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Tubber
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Tubber I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Tubber
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Tubber Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Tubber
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Tubber Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tubber
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 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Tubber "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Tubber
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "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) Tubber "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Tubber
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger 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, Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Tubber "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Tubber
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Tubber The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Tubber