He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "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) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Localities Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Localities
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Marriage is a rest period between romances. A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Localities Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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 Localities
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Localities To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Localities
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Localities Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- Anonymous Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Localities
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 Localities "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Localities
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Localities Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW 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 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Localities
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Localities "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Localities
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Localities These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Localities
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Localities Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Localities
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Localities It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Localities
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Localities It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Localities
