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 When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb M Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 M
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "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) 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 M Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison 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 We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone M
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land M The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop M
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock M "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh M
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison M Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 M
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde M Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... "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 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.
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Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) M "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France M
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) M "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) M
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "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) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point M He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. M
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason M My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. 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 "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) M
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein M I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) M
