Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Tales and Legends A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Tales and Legends
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Tales and Legends "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Tales and Legends
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Tales and Legends Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Tales and Legends
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Tales and Legends The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Tales and Legends
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Tales and Legends Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tales and Legends
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Tales and Legends Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Tales and Legends
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Tales and Legends Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Tales and Legends
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tales and Legends That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Tales and Legends
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 Tales and Legends "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Tales and Legends
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tales and Legends You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Tales and Legends
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tales and Legends "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Tales and Legends
