Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Geographical Areas "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Geographical Areas
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Geographical Areas A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Geographical Areas
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Geographical Areas Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Geographical Areas
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Geographical Areas Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Geographical Areas
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Geographical Areas "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Geographical Areas
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Geographical Areas "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Geographical Areas
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Geographical Areas The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Geographical Areas
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Geographical Areas "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 bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Geographical Areas
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Geographical Areas "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Geographical Areas
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Geographical Areas There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Geographical Areas
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Geographical Areas Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Geographical Areas
