"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) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Provinces Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Provinces
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Provinces Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Provinces
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Provinces There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Provinces
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Provinces Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Provinces
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Provinces We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Provinces
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Provinces Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Provinces
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Provinces What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Provinces
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Provinces Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Provinces
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Provinces Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Provinces
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Provinces Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Provinces
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Provinces "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Provinces
