"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Government It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Government
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Government Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Government
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Government I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Government
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of 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 There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Government Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Government
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Marriage is a rest period between romances. 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 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 Government "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Government
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Government The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Government
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Government "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Government
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Government Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Government
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Government I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
"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) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Government If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Government
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Government Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Government
