Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus F The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin F
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 F 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 When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson F
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen F "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 F
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 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 "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived F "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill F
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) F No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones F
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle F "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer F
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas F The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan F
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) F "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein F
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) F Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) F
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld F 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 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin F
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous F There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer 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 He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson F
