The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Abroad Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Abroad
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Abroad No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Abroad
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Abroad Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Abroad
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Abroad If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison 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 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Abroad
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Abroad "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball 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 Abroad
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Abroad An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Abroad
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Abroad We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Abroad
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Abroad "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Abroad
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Abroad A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Abroad
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Abroad .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Abroad
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Abroad I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley 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 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Abroad
