Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) DJs Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart DJs
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau DJs "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali DJs
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "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 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce DJs I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 DJs
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha DJs The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 DJs
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) DJs Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman DJs
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon 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.
-- Winston Churchill Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige DJs My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous DJs
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley DJs "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter DJs
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) DJs I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain DJs
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill DJs Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller DJs
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) DJs This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) DJs
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 DJs Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke DJs
