"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Canelli Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Canelli
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "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) Canelli Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Canelli
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Canelli Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Canelli
May you never leave your marriage alive. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan 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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Canelli "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Canelli
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Canelli The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Canelli
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Canelli The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Canelli
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) 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 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Canelli Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Canelli
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Canelli Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Canelli
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Canelli 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 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Canelli
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Canelli A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Canelli
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "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) Canelli The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Canelli
