"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi B Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian B
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken B We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy B
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) B "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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. B
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells 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 B There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher B
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert B "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) B
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage is a rest period between romances. B "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) B
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) B The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman B
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) B Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black B
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco B "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas B
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi B "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp B
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) B A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley B
