Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Marsalforn War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Marsalforn
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Marsalforn Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Marsalforn
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "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) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Marsalforn "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Marsalforn
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Marsalforn 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 The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marsalforn
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Marsalforn Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Marsalforn
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "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) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Marsalforn CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Marsalforn
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Marsalforn 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 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Marsalforn
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Marsalforn Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Marsalforn
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Marsalforn "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Marsalforn
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Marsalforn "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marsalforn
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Marsalforn "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Marsalforn
