"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx 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" Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Ashford Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Ashford
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 Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ashford My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Ashford
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Ashford My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Ashford
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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 Ashford "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Ashford
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Ashford Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Ashford
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Ashford Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ashford
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Ashford It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Ashford
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Ashford Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Ashford
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "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 "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) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Ashford War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Ashford
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Ashford One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Ashford
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Ashford Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Ashford
