Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Slane I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Slane
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Slane Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Slane
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Slane We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Slane "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Slane
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller May you never leave your marriage alive. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Slane "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Slane
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Slane I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Slane
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Slane "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Slane
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Slane Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Slane
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Slane The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Slane
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Slane The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Slane
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 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Slane blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Slane
