My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Giarre It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Giarre
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Giarre If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Giarre
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Giarre Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Giarre
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Giarre Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Giarre
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Giarre We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx 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) Giarre
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Giarre "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Giarre
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Giarre A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Giarre
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Giarre "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Giarre
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Giarre "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Giarre
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Giarre 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 Nietzsche "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Giarre
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Giarre "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Giarre
