"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Government The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Government
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "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) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Government "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Government
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Government A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Government
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Government "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Government
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Government Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Government
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Government To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Government
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Government Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey 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 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Government
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Government I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Government
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Government
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Government "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Government
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Government You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Government
