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If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Donnycarney To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Donnycarney
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz 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 "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife 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 Donnycarney "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Donnycarney
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 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Donnycarney He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Donnycarney
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Donnycarney Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Donnycarney
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Donnycarney Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Donnycarney
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa 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 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Donnycarney Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Donnycarney
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Donnycarney Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Donnycarney
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Donnycarney If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Donnycarney
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Donnycarney Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "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 What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Donnycarney
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle 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 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Donnycarney "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Donnycarney
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous 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 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Donnycarney Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Donnycarney
