If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Animal Welfare "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Animal Welfare
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Animal Welfare "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Animal Welfare
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animal Welfare Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Animal Welfare
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. 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 most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Animal Welfare Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Animal Welfare
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Animal Welfare We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Animal Welfare
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Animal Welfare Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Animal Welfare
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Animal Welfare That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Animal Welfare
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Animal Welfare I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Animal Welfare
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Animal Welfare "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Animal Welfare
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Animal Welfare The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward 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 "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Animal Welfare
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Animal Welfare The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Animal Welfare
