"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) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Cricket When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Cricket
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Cricket "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Cricket
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Cricket Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Cricket
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Cricket "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Cricket
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Cricket "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cricket
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Cricket The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Cricket
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Cricket "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Cricket
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal May you never leave your marriage alive. The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Cricket Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Cricket
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Cricket blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Cricket
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Cricket He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Cricket "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Cricket
