I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "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 No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Arts and Entertainment "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Arts and Entertainment
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Arts and Entertainment "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
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 When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Arts and Entertainment The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Arts and Entertainment
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Arts and Entertainment "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Arts and Entertainment
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Arts and Entertainment The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Arts and Entertainment
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Arts and Entertainment The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Arts and Entertainment "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Arts and Entertainment
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Arts and Entertainment If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Arts and Entertainment
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Arts and Entertainment
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Arts and Entertainment "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) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Arts and Entertainment
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Arts and Entertainment Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Arts and Entertainment
