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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Westport "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Westport
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Westport "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Westport
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Westport "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Westport
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi 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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Westport It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Westport
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Westport Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Westport
"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) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Westport Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Westport
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Westport Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Westport
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Westport Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Westport
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh 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) Westport "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Westport
"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) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Westport In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Westport
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Westport 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 What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Westport
