Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Collins, Michael "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Collins, Michael
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Collins, Michael I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Collins, Michael
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Collins, Michael Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Collins, Michael
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Collins, Michael I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Collins, Michael
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Collins, Michael "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Collins, Michael
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Collins, Michael "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Collins, Michael
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Collins, Michael I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Collins, Michael
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Collins, Michael Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Collins, Michael
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Collins, Michael It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Collins, Michael
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Collins, Michael Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Collins, Michael
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Collins, Michael "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Collins, Michael
