We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Bunclody Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Bunclody
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Bunclody "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Bunclody
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "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 Bunclody "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Bunclody
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa 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 Bunclody Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Bunclody
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Bunclody "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Bunclody
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Bunclody Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 Bunclody
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Bunclody "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Bunclody
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Bunclody See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Bunclody
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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Bunclody "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Bunclody
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bunclody I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Bunclody
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Bunclody What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Bunclody
