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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 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 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Photography "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Photography
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Photography Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Photography "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Photography
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "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) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Photography "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Photography
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Photography The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Photography
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Photography blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Photography
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Photography It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Photography
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Photography If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming 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 Photography
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde 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 "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Photography Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Photography
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Photography "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Photography
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Photography To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Photography
