When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Government The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Government
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Government "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Government
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Government "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Government
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Government Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Government
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Government An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Government
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Government "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Government
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin 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 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Government Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Government
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Government
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Government There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Government
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Government Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Government
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Government I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Government
