"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker What's new? Most of my wife. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler English Dialects Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi English Dialects
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last English Dialects Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton English Dialects
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson English Dialects "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli English Dialects
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard English Dialects We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche English Dialects
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) English Dialects Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes English Dialects
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery English Dialects "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe English Dialects
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke English Dialects Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) English Dialects
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale English Dialects 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 There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) English Dialects
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) English Dialects "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson English Dialects
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet English Dialects I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous English Dialects
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud English Dialects Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) English Dialects
