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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Politics "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Politics
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Politics "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Politics
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Politics Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor 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 Politics
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Politics University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Politics
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Politics I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Politics
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Politics The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Politics
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Politics Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Politics
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Politics They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Politics
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous 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 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Politics The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Politics
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Politics Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Politics
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Politics
