Corax - Political humor by Yugoslavia's premier cartoonist.
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Politics Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Politics
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Politics We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Politics
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Politics Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 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 Politics
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Politics "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 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Politics
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Politics Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Politics
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Politics
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Politics To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Politics
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Politics One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Politics
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Politics Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Politics
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Politics "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Politics "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Politics
