The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Wicklow Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Wicklow
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Wicklow Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Wicklow
"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) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Wicklow "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Wicklow
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Wicklow Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Wicklow
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Wicklow "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Wicklow
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Wicklow He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Wicklow
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wicklow "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Wicklow
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Wicklow "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Wicklow
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Wicklow Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Wicklow
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Wicklow They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Wicklow
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "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 Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Wicklow There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Wicklow
