"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Government To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Government
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "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) Government The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods 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 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Government
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana 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 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Government "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Government
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Government Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Government
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Government Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Government
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Government When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Government
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Government "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Government
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Government Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Government
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Government Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Government
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Government Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Government
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Government Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Government
