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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Galleries Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Galleries
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Galleries Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Galleries As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Galleries
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Galleries The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Galleries
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Galleries Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Galleries
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Galleries It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Galleries
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Galleries For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Galleries
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Galleries "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Galleries
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Galleries The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Galleries
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Galleries In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Galleries
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Galleries "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Galleries
