"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Running Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Running
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Running "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Running
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 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Running "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Running
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Running I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Running
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Running Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Running
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "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) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Running A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Running
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Running Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Running
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Running Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Running
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Running "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) 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 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Running
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Running He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Running
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Running blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Running
