Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Localities Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Localities
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) ... 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
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Localities 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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Localities
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Localities The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Localities
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Localities Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Localities
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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Localities There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Localities
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Localities "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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) Localities
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Localities "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Localities
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Localities Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Localities
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Localities Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Localities
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Localities Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Localities
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Localities There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Localities
