"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Provinces blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "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." Provinces
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Provinces You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Provinces
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Provinces "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Provinces
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Provinces Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "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 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 Provinces Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Provinces
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Provinces If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Provinces
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Provinces "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Provinces
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Provinces Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Provinces
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Provinces "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Provinces
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Provinces "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Provinces
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Provinces Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Provinces
