People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Minorities The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Minorities
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward 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 west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Minorities Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman 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 Minorities
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Minorities "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Minorities
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Minorities Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Minorities
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Minorities Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Minorities
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Minorities Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Minorities
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Minorities There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Minorities
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Minorities "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Minorities
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Minorities Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Minorities
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Minorities "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Minorities
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Minorities Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Minorities
