"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Issues Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Issues
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Issues Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Issues
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Issues "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Issues
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Issues The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Issues
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Issues "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Issues
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Issues "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Issues
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Issues Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Issues
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "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) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Issues What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Issues
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Issues Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Issues
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Issues "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Issues
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce 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
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Issues While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Issues
