Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Politics You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Politics
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg 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 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Politics Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Politics
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Politics The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Politics
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Politics Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. ... 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
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Politics
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Politics It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Politics
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry 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) Politics The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Politics
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Politics I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 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 Politics
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- 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 "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Politics I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Politics
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz May you never leave your marriage alive. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Politics Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Politics
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Politics What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Politics
