The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Nangor Road blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Nangor Road
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Nangor Road "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Nangor Road
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Nangor Road "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Nangor Road
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 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Nangor Road Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Nangor Road
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Nangor Road The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Nangor Road
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Nangor Road "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Nangor Road
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Nangor Road "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Nangor Road
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Nangor Road If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nangor Road
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Nangor Road "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Nangor Road
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Nangor Road Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Nangor Road
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Nangor Road "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "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 When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Nangor Road
