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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting MSF "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw MSF
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen MSF "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) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde MSF
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West MSF "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais MSF
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous MSF Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore MSF
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings MSF Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) MSF
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill MSF Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake MSF
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) MSF Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken MSF
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. MSF Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones MSF
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 MSF "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson MSF
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous MSF Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante MSF
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "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) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) MSF Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman 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 MSF
