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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Conventions "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Conventions
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley 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 Conventions When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Conventions
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Conventions There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Conventions
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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Conventions I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Conventions
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Conventions "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Conventions
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "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 Conventions This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Conventions
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Conventions Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Conventions
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "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) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Conventions Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Conventions
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Conventions He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Conventions
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Conventions "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Conventions
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Conventions "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Conventions
