blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Ethnicity The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Ethnicity
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Ethnicity The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Ethnicity
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Ethnicity I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Ethnicity
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Ethnicity Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ethnicity
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Ethnicity The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Ethnicity
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Ethnicity The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Ethnicity
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Ethnicity The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Ethnicity
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Ethnicity At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Ethnicity
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Ethnicity If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Ethnicity
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Ethnicity "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ethnicity
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Ethnicity The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Ethnicity
