Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein C To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) C
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) C We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str C
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. C A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken C
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop C "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin C
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken C Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J C
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life 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 C I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) C
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx C I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton C
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) C "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown C
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus C The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson C
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte C The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana C
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William 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 Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken C I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford C
